Dockets UW-980616
June 25, 1998
Page 1
Agenda Date:  March 31, 1999
Item Number:  

Docket:   UW-990428
Company Name:  Gamble Bay Water, Inc.

Staff:    Jim Ward, Revenue Requirements Specialist
Penny Hansen, Public Involvement Coordinator

Recommendation:

Issue Complaint and Order Suspending Contract in Docket UW-990428, filed by 
Gamble Bay Water, Inc.

Discussion:

On March 15, 1999, Gamble Bay Water, Inc., (Gamble Bay) filed with the 
Commission a contract.  Gamble Bay serves approximately 250 customers located 
on 13 water systems on Bainbridge Island and near Poulsbo.

This contract provides for Stetson Development Company, LLC., (developer) to 
install and pay for a water distribution main, well improvements, and related 
operating equipment and appurtenances for a twenty (20) lot subdivision.  The 
developer will also pay all engineering fees and plan review fees associated 
with this water system extension.  Additionally, the developer will install all 
service connections.  The developer will then convey the system extension, by a 
bill of sale, to Gamble Bay.

Regulatory Services staff has issued a data request for information about the 
contract.  Gamble Bay has not yet provided this information and water staff 
cannot establish is the contract is fair, just, reasonable, or sufficient. 

Staff recommends that the Commission Issue Complaint and Order Suspending 
Contract in Docket UW-990428, filed by Gamble Bay Water, Inc.