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Council approves sewer conversion agreement for Seventieth Avenue mobile home park
Summary
The City of Tumwater unanimously adopted a development agreement to convert a 39-unit mobile home park from septic to city sewer service, using a $500,000 Department of Ecology grant plus city sewer funds; the project is staged as a pilot to inform future septic-to-sewer work in high-density areas.
The Tumwater City Council on April 15 approved a development agreement with Seventieth Avenue LLC to convert the Belkombe/Velkombe mobile home park’s on-site septic systems to city sewer service.
City staff framed the measure as a pilot project aimed at converting high-density septic neighborhoods more quickly than the current one-by-one approach. Patrick Soderberg, Water Resources and Sustainability Program Manager, told the council the city has identified nearly 1,000 septic systems inside the city and that conversions at the current pace would take many decades to complete. He said the city sought grant funding and is pairing the Department of Ecology Centennial Clean Water Grant with sewer-utility funds to make a larger, bundled conversion feasible.
The project covers 39 existing…
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