PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson County officials have entered the preliminary design phase of the Port Hadlock urban growth area sewer project, which is expected to serve the community’s commercial core by 2012.
“We’re much farther along with this than we’ve ever been,” said county Commissioner David Sullivan, D-Cape George, whose district includes Port Hadlock.
Once the preliminary design is completed in 2010, Sullivan said, then the county can enter into the utility local improvement district process.
“Then we can tell them what the costs to [taxpayers] will be,” Sullivan said.
The state departments of Health and Ecology have approved the project’s capital facilities plan, which is needed to comply with the state’s Growth Management Act.
Sullivan said a storm water management plan has been completed and transportation planning is now in progress.
Once that is done, the county can start the urban growth area designation.