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KITTITAS COUNTY <br />DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS <br />PUBLIC WORKS — BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />STUDY SESSION STAFF REPORT <br />STUDY SESSION DATE: February 12, 2024 <br />TOPIC: Kittitas County Water Mitigation for Upper <br />County Emergency Operations Center / Search <br />and Rescue Facility <br />ACTION REQUESTED: Direction to Staff <br />LEAD STAFF: <br />Arden Thomas <br />RECOMMENDATION: <br />Direct Staff to Prepare Resolution Authorizing Mitigation through the Kittitas County <br />Water Bank. <br />BRIEFING SUMMARY: <br />• Kittitas County has acquired water rights for the purpose of providing Total Water <br />Supply Available mitigation for domestic ground water uses within the Yakima <br />Basin portion of Kittitas County and administers this water though a water <br />mitigation bank. <br />• The Upper County Emergency Operations Center & Search and Rescue Facility <br />to be constructed, owned, and operated by Kittitas County will be served by an <br />individual well and will require legal mitigation for the new use. <br />• County staff recommend that the Board of County Commissioners authorize <br />mitigation be provided out of the County bank, under the "Special Use Program" <br />identified in KCC 13.40.010. <br />• County staff also recommend that mitigation provided for this use be provided per <br />pricing and package size terms for standard water bank packages. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Kittitas County has acquired water rights for the purpose of providing Total Water <br />Supply Available mitigation for domestic ground water uses within Kittitas County and <br />administers this water though a water mitigation bank. Most of the water mitigation <br />provided through the bank is offered through the Standard Program. To be eligible for the <br />standard program, an applicant must: 1) be within the water bank service area, and 2) <br />require a quantity of water consistent with available mitigation packages, and 3) submit <br />an application for a residential building permit within two years (commercial uses not <br />eligible), or 4) submit a short plat application. Commercial uses are not eligible. If the <br />proposed mitigation falls outside these eligibility criteria, Commissioner approval under <br />the Special Use Program authorized by KCC 13.40.010(2) is required. <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />PUBLIC WORKS BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WORK SESSION STAFF REPORT <br />