Boundary board supports Woodway in Ronald sewer district issue
Published 2:51 pm Monday, September 8, 2014
The Snohomish County boundary review board voted Thursday against the City of Shoreline’s proposed assumption of the Snohomish County part of the Ronald Wastewater District.
Shoreline has proposed taking over the district, which is mostly in Shoreline but has a few customers in Woodway and nearby unincorporated areas of southwest Snohomish County.
The Snohomish County part of the district includes the proposed 3,100-unit condominium development on an abandoned industrial site at Point Wells.
Representatives of the Town of Woodway, the Olympic View Water District and Snohomish County government had spoken against the assumption at a public hearing a week earlier.
Olympic View supplies water service to the Snohomish County part of the Ronald District and supplies water and sewer service to Woodway, unincorporated Esperance, most of Edmonds and an unincorporated area north of Edmonds.
The Boundary Review Board has scheduled a formal vote on a written document denying the Shoreline assumption at a Thursday, Sept. 11 meeting on the first floor of the County Administration Building East, also called the Robert J. Drewel Building, on the County Courthouse Campus in Everett.
That decision will be final unless someone appeals it to the Snohomish County Superior Court within 30 days. The Shoreline City Council will decide whether to appeal the decision.
The King County Boundary Review Board already has approved Shoreline’s proposed assumption of the King County part of the district.
That would leave the district with only six customers after Shoreline assumes the King County part of the district in 2017.
Woodway Town Administrator Eric Faison said Friday that the Town’s comprehensive plan includes annexing the area, including Point Wells.
The Boundary Review Board includes two members appointed by the governor, one representing Snohomish County cities, one representing special-purpose districts in the county and one appointed by the county executive and council.
