13.25.100 Replacement of drinking water supply.
A. The Public Works Director or his/her designees shall determine if TCD activities at one or more developments are impacting a City water supply well. The following considerations shall be used to make this declaration of impact: Reduced expected instantaneous City water supply well production rate, water level within the City water supply well while pumping, time of year, and potential contamination or other factor to degrade the quality of potable water produced by the City water supply well. The evaluation of considerations leading to a determination of impact shall occur in accordance with the procedures and methodology detailed in the Temporary Construction Dewatering Operating Policy.
B. The Public Works Director or his/her designees may, at their discretion, allow TCD activities to reduce the instantaneous and annual rates of withdrawal if regional drinking water supply is available for purchase from Cascade Water Alliance. It is presumed that if regional drinking water supply is not available for purchase, the regional water shortage plan has been activated.
C. Development projects whose TCD activities have been determined to be solely or partly impacting the City of Redmond Water Utility’s production of the drinking water at a specific supply well shall either:
1. Cease TCD activities; or
2. With the Public Works Director’s consent, pay the City’s costs of purchasing replacement supply, if available, from the City’s water purveyor as a condition for continued operation of TCD activities. The Public Works Director may require the applicant to deposit sufficient funds with the City to defray the cost of purchasing replacement water for the duration of the TCD activities impact to supply well production prior to allowing the TCD activities to continue. (Ord. 2957 § 7 (part), 2019: Ord. 2831 § 2 (part), 2016).