CITY OF SEATTLE
ORDINANCE __________________
COUNCIL BILL __________________
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AN ORDINANCE relating to the City Light Department and Seattle Public Utilities; transferring partial jurisdiction of a portion of City Light's Georgetown Steam Plant flume property to Seattle Public Utilities for maintenance, repair, replacement, and operation of public stormwater drainage infrastructure.
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WHEREAS, in 2009, the City Light Department (SCL) and Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) collaborated on an environmental cleanup of a portion of the Georgetown Steam Plant flume property to eliminate a possible source of pollution to the Lower Duwamish Waterway, removing the historic Steam Plant open flume and replacing it with an underground storm drainage pipe; and
WHEREAS, while the storm drainage pipe is still a functioning part of SPU's drainage infrastructure, SCL and SPU have not, to date, implemented a partial transfer of jurisdiction from SCL to SPU to allow for the continued presence, maintenance, inspection, testing, repair, replacement, operation, and access to this storm drainage pipe by SPU; and
WHEREAS, SPU and the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation (SPR) agree that it would be mutually beneficial to clarify and define jurisdiction of the departments over a portion of the Georgetown Steam Plant flume property for purposes of ownership, operation, maintenance, and access to the storm drainage pipe; and
WHEREAS, SCL plans to request City Council approval of the transfer of jurisdiction of a part of the Georgetown Steam Plant flume property and all rights and obligations pertaining thereto from SCL to both SPR and to the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) as public benefit conditions for an off-leash area and pedestrian/bicycle trail in connection with SCL's petition to vacate a portion of Diagonal Avenue South; and
WHEREAS, SCL and SPU agree that it is preferable to clarify SPU's jurisdiction over the storm drainage pipe prior to the transfer of...
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