File #: 2006-0166    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 4/10/2006 In control: Capital Budget Committee
On agenda: Final action: 4/24/2006
Enactment date: 5/3/2006 Enactment #: 15424
Title: AN ORDINANCE making a supplemental appropriation of $12,994,100 of capital funds to provide the appropriate level of appropriation authority on an emergency basis for the Ballard siphon replacement project in the conveyance pipelines and storage appropriation project category; and amending the 2006 Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 15333, Section 116, as amended, and Attachment D, as amended.
Sponsors: Bob Ferguson, Larry Phillips
Indexes: Appropriation, Budget
Attachments: 1. 15424.pdf, 2. 2006-0166 Attachment 6 of 4-19-06 Staff Report.pdf, 3. 2006-0166 Attachment 7 of 4-19-06 Staff Report.pdf, 4. 2006-0166 Ballard Executive Emergency Declaration 03 20 2006 Attach A1through A4.pdf, 5. 2006-0166 Ballard Executive Emergency Declaration 03 20 2006.doc, 6. 2006-0166 Fiscal Note Ballard Appropriation Request.doc, 7. 2006-0166 Revised Staff Report 4-19-06.doc, 8. 2006-0166 Staff Report 4-19-06.doc, 9. A. Adopted Ordinance 15333, Section 116 Wastewater Treatment Capital Improvement Program, 10. A. Adopted Ordinance 15333, Section 116 Wastewater Treatment Capital Improvement Program
Drafter
Clerk 04/20/2006
Title
AN ORDINANCE making a supplemental appropriation of $12,994,100 of capital funds to provide the appropriate level of appropriation authority on an emergency basis for the Ballard siphon replacement project in the conveyance pipelines and storage appropriation project category; and amending the 2006 Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 15333, Section 116, as amended, and Attachment D, as amended.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings.
A. The Washington ship canal is the only migratory path for fish entering and leaving Lake Washington, Lake Sammamish and the respective tributaries and is a significant and important environmental resource.
B. The existing Ballard siphon in the Washington ship canal was built in 1935 and consists of two thirty-six-inch diameter wood-stave pipes. Wood-stave pipes are shaped wood planks and are made by compressing wood stave into the cylindrical shape by means of tensioned steel bands or rods.
C. The existing Ballard siphon on average conveys seven to eight million gallons per day across the Washington ship canal.
D. Although the wastewater treatment division ("WTD") of the department of natural resources and parks has an extensive program to perform condition assessments on the three hundred fifty miles of pipes that make up the wastewater conveyance system for King County, WTD was unable to perform conditional assessments on the Ballard siphon because the siphon is full of sewage thereby preventing television inspection.
E. The WTD employed recently available sonar technology to inspect wastewater pipes that are full of sewage in November 2005.
F. On December 15, 2005, the WTD received the sonar inspection report from Sonar Solution Inc. for the existing Ballard siphon.
G. On January 17, 2006 the structural engineering consultant firm Roberts Engineering submitted a structural analysis report of the sonar inspection which concluded that the exis...

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