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ORDINANCE: O-2002-49
SUBJECT: Exclusion of the Rooney Valley from the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District Service Area.
ADDRESS: That portion of the Rooney Valley within the City of Lakewood
RECOMMENDATION: Approval
FUNDING SOURCE: N/A
SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND OF SUBJECT MATTER:
The City of Lakewood is under contract with the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District to send all sewage flows from within the City limits of Lakewood to Metro Wastewater unless an exclusion is granted.
All properties in the Rooney Valley, both in Morrison and Lakewood, will receive water service from either the Town of Morrison or the Mount Carbon Metropolitan District. The Water Court decrees for these water supplies require that all water be returned to Bear Creek through the Morrison Sewage Treatment Plant. If sewage flows are sent to the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District, the discharge would occur on the South Platte River at about 64th Avenue. Such a discharge point would void the Water Court degrees for the Mount Carbon Metropolitan District and the Town of Morrison relative to water supplied to the Rooney Valley. Without valid water court decrees there will be no sewage flows going anywhere.
In addition to water court decree issues, the Mount Carbon Metropolitan District already has a system of water lines and sewer lines installed in the valley and the sewer lines currently return flows to the Morrison treatment plant located at C470 and Morrison Road. The cost of constructing sewage facilities to the nearest Metro Wastewater Reclamation District manhole at Kipling Parkway and Bear Creek would be very expensive due to the large distance involved (20,000 feet), the excessively deep cuts (35 feet) and the need for a lift station since the normal gravity route along Bear Creek is precluded by the existence of Bear Creek dam.
Under state law which governs the Metro Wastewater Metropolitan District, a
request for an exclusion must be made by ordinance adopted after a public hearing.
Lakewood must make a finding that this area cannot feasibly be served by Metro's
facilities, and the City must then file a certified copy of the Ordinance with
the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District with the request that a portion of
Lakewood, namely the Rooney Valley within Lakewood, be excluded from the District.
DATE OF FIRST READING: December 9, 2002
DATE OF SECOND READING: January 13, 2003
ORIGINATED BY: Richard J. Plastino, Director of Public Works
STAFF PERSON RESPONSIBLE: Richard J. Plastino, Director of Public Works,
303-987-7901
DOCUMENTS ATTACHED: Ordinance O-2002-49
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SUBMITTED BY:
Richard J. Plastino, Director of Public Works
REVIEWED BY:
Joni Inman, Director Mayor and City Manager's Office
Michael J. Rock, City Manager
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