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Kitsap Public Works proposes new sewer construction standards, sparks debate on private roads and lift-station rules
Summary
Anthony Burgess, capital project manager for Kitsap County Public Works's Sewer Utility, presented a two-part update to the county's sanitary sewer construction standards and said many technical requirements had not been comprehensively updated since the 1990s.
Anthony Burgess, capital project manager for Kitsap County's Sewer Utility Division, presented a two-part update to the county's sanitary sewer construction standards on Aug. 5, describing technical edits that staff say are overdue and a set of discretionary development-policy proposals that drew extensive commissioner and stakeholder questions. "Sewer has not had a comprehensive update to their standards in many, many years," Burgess said.
Burgess divided the rewrite into (1) means-and-methods technical updates intended to reflect current construction practice and safety, and (2) discretionary development policies that need public conversation. Immediate technical changes include banning pea-gravel ("pea gravel") trench backfill for pipe bedding and requiring a compacted, angular material; tightening TV-inspection tolerances (developers must repair any pipe "belly" exceeding 1/8 inch); and updating standard details and figures. Burgess said crews already are…
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