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1 <br /> INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT <br />BETWEEN <br />CITY OF EVERETT AND CITY OF LAKE STEVENS REGARDING <br />WATER TRANSMISSION LINES, ALLOWED USES AND PERMITTING <br /> <br />This Interlocal Agreement (“Agreement”) is dated for reference purposes as of last <br />signature below, and is between CITY OF EVERETT, a Washington municipal corporation <br />(“Everett”) and CITY OF LAKE STEVENS, a Washington municipal corporation (“Lake <br />Stevens”) (individually a “Party” and collectively the “Parties”), pursuant to Chapter 39.34 of the <br />Revised Code of Washington (RCW). <br />RECITALS <br />A. Everett’s regional water system provides water to about 75% of Snohomish County, <br />which is approximately 640,000 people, including Lake Stevens. The water system begins at <br />Spada Reservoir, which has a 50 billion gallon capacity, then to Chaplain Reservoir, which has a <br />5 billion gallon capacity. At Chaplain Reservoir, up to 132 million gallons per day (MGD) can be <br />treated at Everett’s treatment facility. <br />B. From its water filtration plant, Everett transmits the potable water through four <br />large diameter transmission lines to Lake Stevens, Everett and throughout most of Snohomish <br />County. These transmission pipelines can deliver up to 200 MGD. Each of the four pipelines is <br />about four feet across and can each carry about 50 MGD. Transmission lines number two, three, <br />and four run in a corridor through a portion of Lake Stevens. These transmission lines and a <br />continuous 14-foot wide maintenance access road are critical infrastructure for the region. Everett <br />holds property ownership and easements for the corridor containing the transmission pipelines and <br />access road within Lake Stevens city limits (the “Water Corridor”) as shown on Exhibit 1 attached <br />to this Agreement. <br />C. When the Water Corridor was initially established about 100 years ago, it traversed <br />mostly undeveloped rural land with a gravel access road for transmission line maintenance. As <br />Snohomish County continues to grow, this land is becoming more urbanized with homes and <br />businesses. As development increases in these previously rural areas, it is becoming more apparent <br />that interagency coordination will be required to protect the Water Corridor and provide greater <br />certainty related to the allowed uses within and around the Water Corridor by the owners of public <br />and private property through which the Water Corridor passes. <br />D. Protecting the Water Corridor allows Everett to operate, maintain and improve its <br />regional water system. Lake Stevens acknowledges the critical nature of this infrastructure and <br />the property/easement rights for the transmission lines and 14-foot-wide continuous access road <br />located within the Water Corridor in Lake Stevens. Construction and day-to-day activities on or <br />adjacent to the Water Corridor cannot be allowed to endanger the region’s drinking water. <br />E. Lake Stevens and Everett desire to clarify which public and private improvements <br />may be constructed that do not endanger the Everett regional water system or conflict with <br />Everett’s property/easement rights, and which may be constructed and/or permitted by Lake