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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 111 LAND USE ELEMENT In the north end of Everett storm runoff is treated along with the sanitary sewer system 1.14.4 Puget Sound Water Quality by the Everett Water Pollution Control Management Plan: The Puget Sound Water Facility(sewage treatment plant). In the south Quality Management Plan provides recom- end of Everett and in the unincorporated areas mendations and guidelines for the protection of the Everett Planning Area under the of water quality in the Puget Sound basin. jurisdiction of Snohomish County, storm Many of the existing programs described runoff is required to be detained by either on- above implement various goals of this regional site or regional storm detention systems before water quality protection plan. I it is allowed to be released into the natural drainage system formed by streams and other a) The City shall continue to use the Puget drainage courses. Sound Water Quality Management Plan as a guide to developing and implementing pro- a) The city shall continue to work with grams and improvements that enhance the neighboring jurisdictions to review drainage surface water quality of the Everett Planning problems and update drainage ordinances and Area. program capital improvements to provide adequate drainage for the land uses planned by 1.15 Environmentally Sensitive Area the Land Use Element. Land Use Policies. As a requirement of the Growth Management Act, Everett adopted 1.14.3 Water Quality: Water quality is regulations protecting "critical areas," or addressed in the Surface Water System environmentally sensitive areas, in 1991. Ordinance, drainage ordinance, drainage basin Along with the regulations called for by the plans, and the City's Design and Construction GMA, the city developed comprehensive plan Standards and Specifications. The storm policies for these areas. The policies are water runoff in the north end of Everett is repeated herein. These policies address only treated by the Everett Water Pollution Control environmentally sensitive areas and do not Facility (sewage treatment plant). While attempt to address other environmental issues. overflows from this combined system into the Snohomish River have been a problem in the Separate policies and regulations pertaining to past, programmed improvements in this environmentally sensitive areas within the system will reduce this problem to an average shoreline areas will be more specifically of one event per year per outfall. In the south addressed within the update of the Everett part of the Everett Planning Area, both the Shoreline Master Program (SMP). Therefore, City and Snohomish County have prepared when the SMP is adopted, the Environ- storm drainage and water quality plans and mentally Sensitive Area Land Use Policies have identified both structural and non- contained herein will not apply to the areas structural improvements that can be made to under the jurisdiction of the Everett SMP. prevent further degradation of water quality. The policies and regulations within the SMP address all of the "critical area" requirements a) Everett shall continue to monitor the of the Growth Management Act that apply quality of its surface waters and coordinate within Everett's shoreline areas. However, the with neighboring jurisdictions to identify policies and regulations within the SMP are methods to improve the water quality of the intended to more specifically address pro- 10 waters draining into and out of the Everett tection, enhancement and mitigation of Planning Area. impacts to shoreline environmental resources. I LU-48