File #: 2015-0343    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 8/24/2015 In control: Transportation, Economy, and Environment Committee
On agenda: Final action: 9/8/2015
Enactment date: 9/18/2015 Enactment #: 18102
Title: AN ORDINANCE adopting a resolution of intention to form lake management district No. 2 in the Lake Geneva watershed and setting a public hearing on the formation of the proposed district.
Sponsors: Pete von Reichbauer
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 18102.pdf, 2. A. Proposed boundaries of Lake Management District No. 2, 3. B. Draft Lake Geneva Management Plan, 4. A. Proposed boundaries of Lake Management District No. 2, 5. B. Draft Lake Geneva Management Plan, 6. 2015-0343_SR_LakeGenevaROI.docx, 7. LMD - Seattle Times notice.pub: 10/14-15/2015 - formation of the Lake Geneva lake management district.doc, 8. Sea Times affidavit - pub: 10-14-15-2015.pdf, 9. LGMD Report.pdf
Staff: Auzins, Erin
Drafter
Clerk 09/09/2015
Title
AN ORDINANCE adopting a resolution of intention to form lake management district No. 2 in the Lake Geneva watershed and setting a public hearing on the formation of the proposed district.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Lake Geneva is a thirty-acre lake within a one-hundred-seventy-nine-acre watershed, located within unincorporated King County.
2. Lake Geneva is within the Duwamish-Green River Resource Inventory Area (WRIA) 9, and is the headwaters of an unnamed creek that ultimately flows to the Green and Duwamish rivers.
3. Lake Geneva supports swimming, boating, fishing, wildlife habitat, wildlife viewing and park uses.
4. The development in the watershed is predominantly single-family residential and vacant residential land. The Lake Geneva park, owned by King County, is adjacent to Lake Geneva. The Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife owns and operates a boat ramp on the lake.
5. Lake Geneva has issues with aquatic noxious weeds and invasive plant species, high water episodes due to lake outlet maintenance issues, water quality and human health problems due to Canada geese and further water quality decline due to increased algae growth.
6. Chapter 36.61 RCW authorizes the formation of lake management districts for the purpose of improving the environmental, recreational and aesthetic values of the lakes within Washington state.
7. RCW 36.61.030 authorizes the county legislative authority to initiate formation of a lake management district by adopting a resolution of intention.
8. King County has a lake stewardship program promoting lake monitoring and protection activities and also assists communities in lake management district formation and operation. Through the program, the county and the nearby property owners have conducted plant surveys, water quality monitoring and some aquatic plant removal.
9. King County has assisted the Lake Geneva Property Owners Association in exploring the cre...

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