Environment & Sustainability | Surface Water Management (Title 13)
Pursuant to RCW 36.89.065, such lien shall be effective and shall be enforced and foreclosed in the same manner as the foreclosure of real property tax liens as provided in RCW 36.94.150. The City may commence to foreclose a surface water management service charge lien after three years from the date surface water management charges become delinquent. Pursuant to RCW 36.94.150, collections shall include costs of foreclosure in addition to service charges and interest.
procedures relating to the implementation of this chapter. This includes but is not limited to: a. Procedures for the imposition and collection of service charges and/or for filing of liens and initiation of foreclosure on delinquent accounts and the collection of the debt service portion of the service charge in areas that annex or incorporate;
b. Lake management plans for Beaver Lake and Pine Lake;
9. Surface water management fund
c. Standards and procedures for granting discounts to the surface water management fee; d. Procedures for a grant program to help citizens in reducing the impact of excess storm and surface water runoff by removing impervious surfaces from their property.
All service charges shall be deposited in the surface water management fund, which fund is hereby created to be used only for the purpose of paying all or any part of the cost and expense of providing surface water management services, or to pay or secure the payment of all or any portion of any issue of general obligation or revenue bonds issued for that purpose. Moneys in the fund not needed for immediate expenditure shall be invested for the benefit of the surface water management fund pursuant to the first paragraph of RCW 36.29.020 and such procedures and limitations as are contained in City ordinance, but sufficient funds shall be transferred no later than the end of the fiscal year in which they were first appropriated. The program’s funds balances and other financial resources will be invested conservatively to match strong security of principal with market rates of return. For investment purposes the City manager or designee is hereby designated the fund manager.
F. Water Quality
1. Purpose and intent
The purpose of this chapter is to protect the City’s surface and groundwater quality by providing minimum requirements for reducing and controlling the discharge of contaminants. The City council recognizes that water quality degradation can result either directly from one discharge or through the collective impact of many small discharges. Therefore, this chapter prohibits the discharge of contaminants into surface and stormwater and groundwater, and outlines preventive measures to restrict contaminants from entering such waters. These measures include the implementation of best management practices (BMPs) by the residents of the City of Sammamish.
10. Administrative standards and procedures
Pursuant to Chapter 2.55 SMC and SDC 21.03.050, the director shall develop administrative standards and
Revisions | June 29, 2022 Effective | January 1, 2022
158 | Title 21: Sammamish Development Code
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