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<br /> <br />Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program <br />Chapter 6 106 <br />March 7, 2016 <br />Kittitas County Board of County Commissioners Shoreline Master Program Adopting Ordinance <br />Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program Exhibit A | March 2016 | Page 106 of 339 <br />2. New uses and developments should be sited and designed to avoid or, where <br />avoidance is not possible, to minimize the need for new and/or maintenance <br />dredging. <br />3. Dredging for the purpose of establishing, expanding, relocating, or reconfiguring <br />navigation channels and basins shall be allowed where necessary for assuring safe <br />and efficient accommodation of navigational uses and then only when significant <br />ecological impacts are minimized and mitigated. <br />4. Maintenance dredging of established navigation channels and basins shall be <br />restricted to maintaining previously dredged and/or existing authorized locations, <br />depths and widths. <br />5. All applications for substantial development permits that include dredging shall <br />supply a dredging plan that includes the following information: <br />a. The quantity of material to be removed; <br />b. The method of removal; <br />c. Location of spoil disposal sites and measures that will be taken to protect the <br />environment around them; and <br />d. Plans for the protection and restoration of the shoreline environment during and <br />after dredging operations. <br /> <br />6. A dredging operation judged by the Administrator to be insufficient for protection or <br />restoration of the shoreline environment shall cause denial of a substantial <br />development permit. <br />7. Dredging in surface waters shall be allowed only where necessary because of <br />existing navigation needs, habitat restoration or improvement, maintenance or <br />construction of water-dependent uses. <br />8. Minor trenching to allow the installation of necessary underground pipes or cables <br />may be allowed if no alternative, including boring, is feasible, and: <br />a. Impacts to fish and wildlife habitat are avoided to the maximum extent possible; <br />b. The utility installation shall not increase or decrease the natural rate, extent, or <br />opportunity of channel migration; <br />c. Appropriate best management practices are employed to prevent water quality <br />impacts or other environmental degradation; and <br />d. Mitigation is implemented, as appropriate, pursuant to Section 5.2 Environmental <br />protections and critical areas. <br />9. Dredging for the purpose of obtaining fill material is prohibited, except when <br />permitted under Section 6.12 Mining; or when needed for a project associated with <br />the Model Toxics Control Act (MTCA) or the Comprehensive Environmental <br />Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) habitat restoration, or any