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Council to pursue emergency water right and design for Well No. 9 at Shaw Park amid creek-impact concerns
Summary
City staff presented groundwater-model results showing potential impacts to creeks from a proposed Well No. 9 at Shaw Park, and said the Department of Ecology is supportive of a temporary/emergency water-right approach; council directed staff to proceed with an emergency-right application and to advance design and drilling as an emergency source,
City staff described a multi-year process to address water-system redundancy in Gig Harbor North and said they will apply to the Washington State Department of Ecology for an emergency water-right change for Well Number 9 at Shaw Park, proceed with design and drilling, and continue updates to groundwater modeling with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Staff said the city reengaged the Well Number 9 water-right application in February 2022 after the 2018 water system plan identified the need for redundancy in the Gig Harbor North (450) pressure zone. After reviewing three candidate well sites, staff and consultants selected Shaw Park and submitted a new water-right application. Groundwater modeling based on an earlier USGS aquifer model indicated that operating a deep well at the Shaw Park site (modeled at roughly 1,000 gallons per minute) would…
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