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RESOLUTION NO. 20-07
A RESOLUTION of the City Council of the City of Port Angeles,
Washington, approving goals for the City's 2008-2013 Water
Use Efficiency Program.
WHEREAS, the City strives to ensure its citizens have a safe and reliable water supply
through development, operation, and maintenance of water quality protection facilities; and
WHEREAS, on January 22,2007 the Washington State Department of Health adopted
a Water Use Efficiency (WUE) Rule requiring municipal water suppliers with 1,000 or more
connections to develop a Water Use Efficiency Program for the period of January 2008 through
December of 20 13; and
WHEREAS, the State of Washington found and declared the conservation and efficient
use of water to be a public purpose of highest priority; and.
WHEREAS, the City Council, as the governing board of the City's water utility, must
approve goals for the City's 2008-2013 Waste Use Efficiency Program; and
WHEREAS, on November 29, 2007 the City of Port Angeles held a public meeting to
provide the opportunity for consumers and the public to participate and comment on the water
use efficiency goals; and
WHEREAS, on December 18,2007, pursuant to the procedures and requirements of the
Water Use Efficiency Rule, the City Council considered and discussed the goals and comments
received during the public forum relating to the City's 2008-20 13 Water Use Efficiency Program.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council ofthe City of Port Angeles
as follows:
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The City Council hereby adopts the following goals for the City's 2008-2013 Water Use
Efficiency Program:
A. The City of Port Angeles Water Utility will implement a program intended to
achieve a one percent reduction in distribution system leakage per year and improve the accuracy
and accountability of the system through meter replacement and calibration.
B. The City will implement a program intended to achieve a two-tenths of one
percent reduction in customer consumption per capita per year including offering a minimum of
six water use efficiency measures across the Utility's customer classes.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Port A geles at a regular meeting of said
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Council held on the 18th day of December 2007.
ATTEST:
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William E. Bloor, City Attorney
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