File #: 2002-0159    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 4/15/2002 In control: Utilities Committee
On agenda: Final action: 7/8/2002
Enactment date: 7/11/2002 Enactment #: 14414
Title: AN ORDINANCE approving the city of Kent 2000 Comprehensive Sewer Plan.
Sponsors: Julia Patterson
Indexes: Kent, City of, Sewage
Code sections: 13.24 -
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 14414.pdf, 2. 2002-0159 Fiscal Note.doc, 3. 2002-0159 Regulatory Note Checklist of Criteria.doc, 4. 2002-0159 Transmittal Letter.doc, 5. A. City of Kent 2000 Comprehensive Sewer Plan, 6. Staff Report 06-25-02
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Clerk 04/03/2002
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AN ORDINANCE approving the city of Kent 2000 Comprehensive 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 Kent 2000 Comprehensive Sewer Plan (plan) discusses sewer service to existing and future populations within the city's twenty-five-square-mile service area. The service area currently includes most of the city of Kent, a small area in the city of SeaTac, and parts of urban unincorporated King County. The service area is nearly evenly split between single- and multifamily residences, and commercial and industrial areas. Approximately seventy thousand residents are currently served by the city. At buildout, the population projected to be served by the city could be over one hundred fifty thousand.
All of the city's wastewater flows are treated by King County. The quantity of wastewater from the city that is treated by King County is currently approximately five million gallons per day. At buildout, that amount may nearly double.
The city is working with King County to measure and reduce infiltration and inflow into its sewer system.
A six-year capital program was identified at a cost of approximately five million dollars. Funding for the capital improvements will come primarily from revenue bonds and developer funding for currently unsewered areas.
The King County utilities technical review committee originally reviewed the plan on September 20, 2000. After extensive revisions, the utilities technical review committee again reviewed the plan on October 10, 2001, and approved it. The utilities technical review committee recommends that the council approve the plan.
The city prepared a determination of non-significance for the plan on March 30, 1999, in accordance with the state Environmental Policy Act. The city adopted th...

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