HomeMy WebLinkAbout2135RESOLUTION NO. 2135
A RESOLUTION adopting the documents entitled
"Utility Land Management Plan" and "Forest Land
Management Plan" as policies of the City of
Bremerton and as an addendum to the City's Water
Supply Plan required by RCW 48 and authorizing the
City's Water Superintendent to take the necessary
steps to implement the two Plans.
WHEREAS, the City of Bremerton owns and operates a
municipal water supply system which is designed to meet the
existing and future needs of the City of Bremerton and its
water customers'; and
WHEREAS, it is required by the Department of
Social and Health Services and the Federal Environmental
Protection Agency that the drinking water quality delivered
to the customer meets specific water quality criteria and
that the sources of supply be provided with the appropriate
level of treatment and the watershed be managed to minimize
the introduction of contamination into the supply; and
WHEREAS, the Bremerton Water Utility relies upon a
Watershed Management Program to protect the quality of water
and to minimize the need for water filtration or other
costly treatment techniques to meet the State and Federal
drinking water criteria; and
WHEREAS, the Washington State Department of Social
and Health Services required from the City of Bremerton,
documentation of their Watershed Management Plan and the
controls and financial capability to ensure that the quality
of water is protected without the construction of a water
filtration plant; and
WHEREAS, the City of Bremerton authorized the
development of a Utility Land Management Plan and a Forest
Land Management Plan with the specific objective of
developing policies, procedures, and an implementation
program to help ensure that the quality of water delivered
to the City's customers meet State and Federal requirements.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF BREMERTON, WASHINGTON
1. That we find Volume I, Utility Land Management
Plan, and Volume II, Forest Land Management Plan, consistent
with the goals and objectives of the City of Bremerton and
do hereby adopt the two Plans as official policy and
programs of the City of Bremerton as an integral part of the
City's Water System Plan for the management of the water
supply.
2. That the Mayor of Bremerton, Gene Lobe, is
authorized to submit the two-volume document to the
Department of Social and Health Services for review and
consideration of approval and thereby documenting the
acceptability of the City's Management Plan for protecting
water quality and controlling activities on the municipal
watershed lands.
3. That William Duffy, Water Superintendent, is
hereby authorized to implement the recommendations and
programs outlined in the two-volume Management Plan,
including the designation of the income received from the
Management Plan to be dedicated to the water quality
maintenance and source and distribution improvement program
for the protection of the City's drinking water supply.
4. That William Duffy be further instructed to
continue to monitor the changing requirements of the State
and Federal drinking water laws and to anticipate potential
changes that may affect the management program of the City
of Bremerton such that the cost of providing public water
supply to the City's customers be minimized.
PASSED AND APPROVED on this 15th day of
October, 1986.
CITY OF BREMERTON
Mayor Gene Lobe
City Council President, Spencer Horning
ATTEST:
KATHLEEN L. McCLUSKEY
City Clerk