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Clerk 08/21/2003
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AN ORDINANCE approving the City of Snoqualmie General Sewer Plan.
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PREAMBLE:
K.C.C. chapter 13.24 requires approval of comprehensive plans for sewer utilities as a prerequisite for granting right-of-way franchises and approval of right-of-way construction permits.
The City of Snoqualmie General Sewer Plan ("plan") discusses sewer service to existing and future populations within the city's five-thousand-nine-hundred-acre service area. The service area includes both incorporated and unincorporated portions within the city's urban growth boundary. Approximately seven hundred twenty acres and three thousand two hundred people are currently served by the city.
Several large development projects in the city's urban growth area are proposed to be started in the near future. The projects include a casino proposed by the Snoqualmie Tribe and the Snoqualmie Ridge II development. The plan also includes a connection to the rural area for the Echo Glen Children's Center ("center"), a state-run facility for troubled youth. K.C.C. 13.24.134 allows for sewer service to be expanded to serve uses in the rural and natural resource areas only if the following conditions are met: the facilities are needed to address specific health and safety problems or to meet the needs of public facilities such as schools; the sewer extension is tightlined; and a finding is made by the utilities technical review committee that no cost effective alternative technologies are feasible. The center currently treats it own sewage and discharges the effluent to Icy creek. The existing plant, however, does not function properly and results in pollution of the creek. Other than connecting to the city's system, there do not appear to be any viable options that will both protect the creek and allow the center to continue to operate. On July 9, 2003, the utilities technical review committee approved a rural sewer connection to the center based on findin...

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