SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL - Record No: CB 118424

• Record No: CB 118424
• Version: 1
• Council Bill No: CB 118424
• Type: Ordinance (Ord)
• Status: Passed
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: City Clerk
• On agenda: 7/27/2015
• Ordinance No: Ord 124816
• Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to the City Light Department; declaring certain real property rights and improvements surplus to the City of Seattle's utility needs; and authorizing the release of an access easement and a permit for a groundwater observation well, and the conveyance of ownership of said groundwater well to James and Valerie Van Dyke in Pend Oreille County, Washington.
• Sponsors: Kshama Sawant
• Supporting documents: 1. Summary and Fiscal Note, 2. Summary Att A: Map of Easement and Permit Areas, 3. Signed Ord 124816

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/29/2015	1	City Clerk	attested by City Clerk
7/29/2015	1	Mayor	Signed
7/29/2015	1	Mayor	returned
7/28/2015	1	City Clerk	submitted for Mayor's signature
7/27/2015	1	City Council	passed	Pass
7/22/2015	1	Energy Committee	pass	Pass
6/29/2015	1	City Council	referred
6/4/2015	1	Council President's Office	sent for review
6/2/2015	1	City Clerk	sent for review
6/2/2015	1	Mayor	Mayor's leg transmitted to Council

CITY OF SEATTLE
ORDINANCE __________________
COUNCIL BILL __________________
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AN ORDINANCE relating to the City Light Department; declaring certain real property rights and improvements surplus to the City of Seattle's utility needs; and authorizing the release of an access easement and a permit for a groundwater observation well, and the conveyance of ownership of said groundwater well to James and Valerie Van Dyke in Pend Oreille County, Washington.

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WHEREAS, Seattle City Light installed more than 40 ground water level monitoring wells in Pend Oreille County as part of the construction and licensing of the Boundary Dam in the 1950s and 1960s to study the dam reservoir's impact on ground water levels and the potential, if any, to flood local mines; and
WHEREAS, information from these monitoring wells was collected for nearly 50 years and indicated no deleterious ground water level effects, and the monitoring wells are no longer needed; and
WHEREAS, any groundwater monitoring well which is unusable, abandoned, whose use has been permanently discontinued, or is in disrepair must be properly decommissioned as required by Washington Administrative Code 173-160-381; and
WHEREAS, James and Valerie Van Dyke requested that the monitoring well on their property (Groundwater Observation Well No CS-36) not be decommissioned and agreed to take responsibility for any liabilities and regulatory responsibilities related to this well; NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF SEATTLE AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. Pursuant to the provisions of RCW 35.94.040 and after a public hearing, the real property rights acquired for a groundwater observation well, on the property legally described in Attachment 1 hereto, together with the groundwater monitoring well thereon, are no longer needed for the City of Seattle's utility purposes, and are declared surplus to City needs.
Section 2. The General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of Seattle...