File #: 2005-0052    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 2/14/2005 In control: Natural Resources and Utilities Committee
On agenda: Final action: 3/14/2005
Enactment date: 3/22/2005 Enactment #: 15134
Title: AN ORDINANCE approving the Coal Creek Utility District 2004 Comprehensive Plan for Water and Sewer Systems.
Sponsors: Carolyn Edmonds
Indexes: Coal Creek, Comprehensive Plan, Sewer Districts, Water and Sewer Districts
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 15134.pdf, 2. 2005-0052 Fiscal Note.doc, 3. 2005-0052 Regulatory Note-Checklist of Criteria.doc, 4. 2005-0052 Revised Staff Report Coal Creek Water and Sewer Plan.doc, 5. 2005-0052 Staff Report Coal Creek Water and Sewer Plan.doc, 6. 2005-0052 Transmittal Letter.doc, 7. A. Coal Creek Utility District - 2004 Comprehensive Plan - Water and Sewer Systems
Drafter
Clerk 03/08/2005
Title
AN ORDINANCE approving the Coal Creek Utility District 2004 Comprehensive Plan for Water and Sewer Systems.
Body
PREAMBLE:
K.C.C. chapter 13.24 requires approval of comprehensive plans for water and sewer utilities as a prerequisite for granting right-of-way franchises and approval of right-of-way construction permits.
The Coal Creek Utility District currently provides water and sewer service to approximately nine thousand residents and over one thousand employees in the cities of Newcastle and Renton and in unincorporated areas.
The district obtains its water from the city of Seattle. The average annual water demand is currently one million gallons per day. The average annual demand is projected to increase to approximately one million three hundred thousand gallons per day by 2023.
The district's sewer system discharges into King County's regional collection system. Treatment is provided at King County's Renton treatment plant.
Some areas within the district's sewer collection system experience high flows due to infiltration and inflow. The district is proposing to reduce flows from infiltration and inflow in its capital improvement program.
The district is proposing a six-year combined water and sewer capital improvement program valued at over $3,000,000.
The utilities technical review committee ("UTRC") reviewed the plan on May 12, 2004. The UTRC was unable to determine from the data provided by the district if the district's water conservation program or water rate structure is effective in reducing water demand. The UTRC conditionally approved the plan and recommended that additional information concerning the district's conservation program and water rate be obtained after council approval of the plan and prior to the district's next scheduled water system plan. The technical conditions of UTRC approval have been met in the plan attached to this ordinance.
The Coal Creek Utility District is rev...

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