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--- 10 January 9,1978 The regular meeting of the Everett City Council was called to order at 10:00 aux.,January 9,1978 in the Council Chambers of the Everett City Hall,President Gipson presiding. Upon roll call it was found that all councilmen were in attendance. • SULTAN RIVER POWER ALTERNATIVES Jack Spear of the PUD briefly reviewed the haCkground Of the project, basically the first stage being for water and the sec.:0d Stage fOr PeWer development. Ae also reviewed their license which must be completed by January 1979. Dick Wilson,the engineer for the PUD,said they had budgeted 1.8 million dollars for the year 1978. Ti total project could cost as much as $200,000,000. He went over the alternatives again and said alternative lA and 16 provided about the same amount of power and were almost the . same cost. Alternative 2 provides more power than the others. He said .• • . basically alternative 1 is a river method and alternative 2 is a diversion . method. All alternatives are very close economically. Mary Haglund,Utilities Director,said a committee composed of staff,ad- . . ministration and council had met along wi.Jim Dow from the consulting •• engineers office of Gray and Osborne and Les Cooper who was city attorney at the time the contract had been prepared. After their meeting and . • • cussion,a letter had been drafted for the Mayor's signature which was as follows: • =TITIg'd:CcZ!YWI'll'i'd'M Iitlutrt,Manager Than/Ye.fol dhe opportunity to review and comment upon your proposed plans for power generation in the Sultan Basin. This matter was discussed with the Everett City Cotmcil at their regular meeting of January 4th and at a special workshop on January 9th. The matter of primary concern to the CIty of Everett,and we believe to . the Snohomish Cotmty DUD,is to develop a project that will prove the most cost effective to the water and power users of Snohomish County. It is the City's position that the feasibility of tne combined development ' should be based upon the total costs of both power and water facilities. To further understand our position,it must be realized that,although . the City is presently studying the matter of filtration,the funding and ' construction schedule for installation has not been established and if . • based upon present levels of water quality in the basin maY not OccUr fOr • . years. The raising of Culmback Dam and increased water storage capacity . in Spada Lake generates the following general concerns: 1) Water quality-Your report(Section 6,par 4)states 9the overall effect of the reservoirs...would be to result in general reduction of• turbidity and an improvement in water quality over existing conditions.. 1 0.41'experience has been that the turbidity is caused by the clay which ' enters SPada LaXe during periods of heavy snowmelt and/or rainfall. : 1 • Some of the clay material will settle in the Lake,however,much of the clay will stay in suspension for a considerable time. Our operational PrOcelures have been te bYPass these waters until the Lake clears. With the valves fully open and with the existing capacity of Spada,it has 1 taken approximately 2 to 3 weeks of this.flushing action:to clear the : Lake. Raising the capacity of Spada from 34,000 A.F.to 153,000 A.F. .PProximately 44 times)along with the proposed power operational plans , will Probe.,prohibit such.flushing9. ) 1 • •