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• . ,0040 ORDINANCE NO. 2019-94 JFETT AN ORDINANCE establishing regulations restricting public access and use of Chaplain Tract Watershed lands for the protection of the City of Everett's municipal water supply. WHEREAS, the Chaplain Reservoir watershed lands (see attached map) are owned and managed by the City of Everett, Public Works Department and all municipal ordinances apply to the property. WHEREAS, the City of Everett provides domestic drinking water to approximately 400,000 residents of Snohomish County, and by year 2020, it is expected that the City of Everett will provide domestic water to nearly 700,000 customers; and, WHEREAS, the Washington State Board of Health Drinking Water Regulations require that water purveyors obtain drinking water from the highest quality source feasible, with purveyors obligated to identify and monitor those conditions and activities which adversely affect source water quality and make recommendations for improved watershed control (WAC 246-290-668); and, WHEREAS, the City's water supply has been located approximately 20 miles east of Everett in the Sultan Basin since the early I900s, comprised of all water resources located within the hydrologic boundary of the Sultan Basin including Spada and Chaplain Reservoirs and the Sultan River and its tributaries above the City diversion dam, with the lands encompassed within the hydrologic boundary of Chaplain Reservoir owned by the City of Everett; and, WHEREAS, the City's domestic water supply system consists of dams at Chaplain and Spada Reservoirs; a City diversion dam and tunnel along the Sultan River; a Snohomish County Public Utility District (PUD) tunnel, penstock and water line which, among other things, provide storage, transfer and sediment settling for the domestic water supply; and a filtration plant constructed at Chaplain Reservoir; and, WHEREAS, portions of the City-owned Chaplain Reservoir lands are managed under Federal Energy Regulatory Commission License #2157 regulating the Henry M. Jackson Hydroelectric Project, conditioned by the implementation of the Wildlife Habitat Management Plan (WHMP) to mitigate for wildlife habitat losses caused by inundation of land at Spada Reservoir; and, WHEREAS, preservation and enhancement of water quality in the Chaplain Reservoir watershed, as well as within the entire Sultan Basin, are of paramount importance to the City's ability to provide adequate safe drinking water to those in its service area; and, WHEREAS, certain human activities adjacent to Chaplain Reservoir jeopardizes water quality.