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A MOTION approving a framework of goals, objectives and conceptual approaches for preparation of a capital investment strategy for the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River.
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WHEREAS, the scope of the proposed Middle Fork Snoqualmie River Corridor Plan ("the Corridor Plan") is the lower five miles of the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River ("the Study Area"), where communities are most impacted by flooding and channel migration and where King County maintains a discontinuous system of flood protection levees and revetments, and
WHEREAS, the Corridor Plan will recommend a prioritized and sequenced suite of actions for the river and its floodplain, channel migration zone, and riparian areas ("the Capital Investment Strategy"), and
WHEREAS the Study Area is subject to flood hazards including local bank erosion as well as channel migration and potential avulsion, and
WHEREAS, there is over $40 million of residential development within the Study Area, and
WHEREAS, there are 14 King County flood facilities within the Study Area including 11 bank protection revetments and three training levees, and
WHEREAS, the levees in the Study Area overtop at approximately a 30-year flood event, and
WHEREAS, approximately 300 structures in the Study Area are at risk of inundation at a 100-year flood event, and
WHEREAS, approximately 20 structures in the Study Area are located in the severe channel migration zone;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE KING COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL ZONE DISTRICT:
A. The executive committee adopts the "Middle Fork Snoqualmie River Corridor
Plan Capital Investment Strategy Floodplain Management Goals and Objectives," which is Attachment A to this motion.