Drafter
Clerk 06/05/2026
Title
AN ORDINANCE adopting a resolution of intention to re-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 Water Resource Inventory Area 9, also known as WRIA 9, and is the headwaters of an unnamed creek that ultimately flows into the Green and Duwamish rivers.
3. Lake Geneva supports swimming, fishing, boating, 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 plants species, nuisance native vegetation, high water episodes due to lake outlet maintenance issues, water quality and human health problems due to Canada geese, and declining water quality resulting from 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 intention. As relevant in this case, the same procedure is available to continue or re-form a previously formed lake management district.
8. King County has a lake stewardship program promoting lake monitoring and protection activities that also assists communities in the lake management district formation and operation. Through the program, the county and nearby property owners have con...
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