SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL - Record No: CB 118760

• Record No: CB 118760
• Version: 2
• Council Bill No: CB 118760
• Type: Ordinance (Ord)
• Status: Passed
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: City Clerk
• On agenda: 10/3/2016
• Ordinance No: Ord 125153
• Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to Seattle Public Utilities; authorizing the Director of Seattle Public Utilities to acquire, accept, and record on behalf of the City of Seattle both temporary and permanent property rights from abutting property owners located along the alignment of the planned combined sewage storage tunnel between 24th Avenue NW and Shilshole Avenue NW and Interlake Avenue North and North 35th Street that are necessary or convenient to construct, operate and maintain the Ship Canal Water Quality Project, through negotiation or eminent domain (condemnation); placing the real property rights acquired under the jurisdiction of the Seattle Public Utilities and designating the property rights acquired for utility and general municipal purposes; authorizing payment of all other costs associated with acquisition; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
• Sponsors: Lisa Herbold
• Supporting documents: 1. Summary and Fiscal Note, 2. Presentation, 3. Amendment 1 - Substitute Attachment 2, 4. Amendment 1 CB 118760 (added 9/23/16), 5. Amendment 2 CB 118760 (added 9/23/16), 6. Signed Ord 125153, 7. Affidavit of Publication

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/7/2016	2	City Clerk	attested by City Clerk
10/7/2016	2	Mayor	Signed
10/7/2016	2	Mayor	returned
10/5/2016	2	City Clerk	submitted for Mayor's signature
10/3/2016	1	City Council	passed	Pass
9/23/2016	1	Civil Rights, Utilities, Economic Development, and Arts Committee	pass as amended	Pass
8/15/2016	1	City Council	referred
8/5/2016	1	Council President's Office	sent for review
8/2/2016	1	City Clerk	sent for review
8/2/2016	1	Mayor	Mayor's leg transmitted to Council

CITY OF SEATTLE
ORDINANCE __________________
COUNCIL BILL __________________
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AN ORDINANCE relating to Seattle Public Utilities; authorizing the Director of Seattle Public Utilities to acquire, accept, and record on behalf of the City of Seattle both temporary and permanent property rights from abutting property owners located along the alignment of the planned combined sewage storage tunnel between 24th Avenue NW and Shilshole Avenue NW and Interlake Avenue North and North 35th Street that are necessary or convenient to construct, operate and maintain the Ship Canal Water Quality Project, through negotiation or eminent domain (condemnation); placing the real property rights acquired under the jurisdiction of the Seattle Public Utilities and designating the property rights acquired for utility and general municipal purposes; authorizing payment of all other costs associated with acquisition; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
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WHEREAS, the City of Seattle owns and operates a combined sewer system that in some locations overflows during heavy rain events; and
WHEREAS, the combined sewer system overflows (CSOs) are governed by the State of Washington under the terms of a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit; and
WHEREAS, the terms of the NPDES permit mandate the City of Seattle limit untreated overflows at each CSO outfall to an average of no more than one per year; and
WHEREAS, the City of Seattle is required by federal Consent Decree, as authorized by Ordinance 123908 and amended by Ordinance 124129, to construct control measures to limit untreated combined sewer overflows in accordance with State of Washington requirements by December 31, 2025; and
WHEREAS, Seattle Public Utilities and King County have been working together to evaluate possible joint projects to reduce both City and County CSOs, and have agreed to jointly fund and build a 2.7 mile underground storage tunnel designed to temporarily store more th...