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INTER -LOCAL AGREEMENT
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BETWEEN
CITY OF PORT ANGELES
AND
CLALLAM COUNTY (DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT)
FOR STREAM WATER QUALITY MONITORING
This Inter -Local Agreement is between the City of Port Angeles (herein after referred to
as "the City and the Clallam County (Department of Community Development) (herein after
referred to as "the Department for the purpose of volunteer recruitment, training and
coordination for water quality monitoring, and associated data storage and reporting. Funding for
this work is through the City of Port Angeles.
WHEREAS, the Inter -Local Cooperation Act, RCW 39.34, provides that any two public
agencies of the state having separate authority to exercise a particular power may enter into an
agreement for cooperative or joint exercise of that power; and
WHEREAS, the City of Port Angeles is a municipal corporation of the State of
Washington and Clallam County is a County of the State of Washington and each party has the
authority to contract for water quality monitoring services; and
WHEREAS, the City desires to discover and remediate sources of fecal coliform to the
streams and harbor of Port Angeles and to determine the overall health of the streams. In order to
search for water quality problems and determine stream health in a systematic way, the City
would like to monitor its fresh water courses using scientific procedures and a sampling plan. To
this end, the City would like to use the services of the County's Streamkeepers program.
It is mutually agreed that:
The Department's Responsibilities:
1. Recruit and train volunteers through the Streamkeepers of Clallam County program to
collect water samples and annual benthic macroinvertebrate samples in the Port Angeles
area. Sampling sites will be agreed upon by Streamkeepers and the City, and will have safe
public access. In the instance that a sampling site is not accessible from a public road or
other easement, landowner permission to access the site for sampling purposes will be
obtained by the City.
2. Coordinate monthly and quarterly sampling for fecal coliform and annual sampling for
benthic macroinvertebrates for a period of one year beginning in January. Number of sites
sampled will depend upon funding and laboratory costs.
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3. Submit samples to laboratories for analysis:
a. Fecal coliform samples to the County Environmental Health lab or other certified lab.
b. Benthic macroinvertebrate samples to a taxomic laboratory and QC laboratory, as
appropriate.
4. Record, confirm, and analyze laboratory results, and report them to the City.
The City's Responsibilities:
1. Provide direction as to overall sampling design, including particular sites to be sampled on a
monthly or quarterly basis, and total number of samples to be collected for each period.
2. In the instance that a sampling site is not accessible from a public road or other easement,
landowner persmission to access the site for sampling purposes will be obtained by the City.
3. Arrange with analytical laboratories for payment:
a. Water samples for membrane filter fecal coliform analysis of samples. The lab fee per
sample will be $23.00 at the Clallam County Environmental Health Laboratory. If other
laboratories must be used, fees will vary.
b. Benthic macroinvertebrate samples for taxonomic analysis per the 10- metric genus -level
Benthic Index of Biological Integrity. Laboratory fees cannot be determined in advance,
but the City will use the same taxonomist(s) the Department is using and will pay the
same rate. In 2009, the rate was $495.00 per sampling site, plus a $20/hr fee for extra
processing for unusual sample matrices, plus approximately 1 /10 of the sample
processing cost for Quality Assurance laboratory analysis.
4. Arrange with Streamkeepers and the Department for payment for people and data
management services, at the flat rate of $250.00 per quarterly fecal coliform sampling
session, plus $100.00 per annual benthic macroinvertebrate sampling session. These
services will be reimbursed upon invoice. Additional data analysis and reporting, beyond the
basic Department responsibilities described above, will be billed at the Department's
technical assistance rate of $50 per hour.
The total cost of services for the above tasks, including payments to Streamkeepers and
laboratories, will not exceed $11,000.00.
Effective Dates: Unless otherwise agreed by the parties, this Agreement is effective from
January 1, 2011, until December 31, 2011.
The following general conditions will apply to this Agreement.
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Amendment or Termination: This Agreement may be amended or altered only by written
agreement of the designated representatives of both the City and the Department upon the
signature of such representatives. The amendment shall explicitly state that it is an amendment to
this Agreement. This Agreement may be terminated by either party sixty (60) days after receipt
of written notice of intent to terminate.
Ownership of Items Produced: All writing, programs, data, public records or other materials
prepared by the Department and /or its consultants, subcontractors, or volunteers, in connection
with performance of this Agreement will be entered into the Clallam County Water Resources
database, and therefore become public information. Neither party shall be deemed to have
exclusive ownership of any such writings, programs, data, public records or other materials.
Non Discrimination The Department shall not discriminate against any person on the basis of
race, creed, political ideology, color, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, age,
or the presence of any sensory, mental or physical handicap.
IN WITNESS HEREOF, this Agreement is executed by Clallam County and by the City
of Port Angeles, Washington.
CITY OF PORT ANGELES
Kent Myers,
Dated this day of
Attest:
J a Hurd, City Clerk
Approved As To Form:
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William E. Bloor, City Attorney
2011.
CLALLAM COUNTY BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS
Howard V. Doherty Jr., Chair
Dated this 10 44^ day of
Attest:
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Trish Holden, Clerk of the Board; CMC
Approved As To Form:
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Mark Nichol ief Depu Prosecuting
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