File #: 2006-0167    Version: 1
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 #: 15425
Title: AN ORDINANCE making a supplemental appropriation of $3,960,000 of capital funds to provide the appropriate level of appropriation authority on an emergency basis for the Barton force main repair project in the conveyance pipelines appropriation project category; and amending the 2006 Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 15333, Section 116, as amended, and Attachment D, as amended.
Sponsors: Bob Ferguson
Indexes: Appropriation, Wastewater
Attachments: 1. 15425.pdf, 2. 2006-0167 Attachment 6 of 4-19-06 Staff Report.pdf, 3. 2006-0167 Emergency declaration.pdf, 4. 2006-0167 Fiscal Note.doc, 5. 2006-0167 Lincoln Park Barton FM Repair Ma2006-0167.pdf, 6. 2006-0167 LIncoln Park Emergency Waiver1.doc, 7. 2006-0167 Revised Staff Report 04-19-06.doc, 8. 2006-0167 Staff Report 4-19-06.doc, 9. 2006-0167 Transmittal Letter.doc, 10. A. Adopted Ordinance 15333, Section 116: Wastewater Treatment Capital Improvement Program, 11. A. Adopted Ordinance 15333, Section 116: Wastewater Treatment Capital Improvement Program
Drafter
Clerk 03/30/2006
Title
AN ORDINANCE making a supplemental appropriation of $3,960,000 of capital funds to provide the appropriate level of appropriation authority on an emergency basis for the Barton force main repair project in the conveyance pipelines 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. There is an emergency due to the failed section of the Beach Drive interceptor at Lincoln park in West Seattle that is leaking sewage onto Lincoln Park beach and into the Puget Sound.
B. On February 4, 2006, a section of the Beach Drive interceptor at Lincoln park in West Seattle failed causing sewage to leak onto the Lincoln park beach and into Puget Sound.
C. This was the second failure in less than one month, the first having occurred on January 17, 2006, and having been repaired on January 21, 2006.
D. Immediately after the February 4 failure, the wastewater treatment division ("WTD") of the department of natural resources and parks instituted tanker trucking operations to move sewage from the Barton pump station to the Murray pump station in order to reduce overflow sewage from entering Puget Sound. As the tanker trucking operations were only partially effective in that there was still an overflow of approximately one million gallons of sewage per day, six hundred feet out into Puget Sound, a temporary pump station was installed and a temporary line was laid along the beach to control sewage overflows.
E. Video inspection of the Beach interceptor after the February 4 failure revealed four other sections of the interceptor that are at imminent risk of failure. WTD has determined that further repair and use of the Beach Drive interceptor pipe at Lincoln park is not feasible and that the thirty-inch concrete cylinder force main should be replaced with two paral...

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