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County staff seek permission to pursue assignment of Vantage‑area water right with Ecology
Summary
Kittitas County water staff requested permission to ask the Department of Ecology to assign a decades‑old change application for a Vantage‑area water right to the county; staff said assignment would help mitigate new development but could carry an annual mitigation fee of roughly $17,000–$30,000 that the county would initially absorb.
Arden Thomas, Kittitas County water resources manager, asked the Board of County Commissioners on Dec. 23 for direction to submit a letter to the Washington Department of Ecology (Office of Columbia River) seeking technical review of whether a long‑standing change application in the Vantage area could be assigned to the county.
Thomas said the application — filed in the 1980s and described in the record as among the most senior change applications in the Office of…
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