DOCKET UW-981517  Page 1
BEFORE THE WASHINGTON UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION

WASHINGTON UTILITIES AND )
TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION, )
   )
  Complainant, ) DOCKET UW-981517
   )
 vs.  ) ORDER DISMISSING
   ) COMPLAINT AND ORDER
Gamble Bay Water, Inc., ) SUSPENDING TARIFF
   ) REVISIONS, AND APPROVING
  Respondent. ) TARIFF REVISIONS
 ) 

  On November 30, 1998, Gamble Bay Water, Inc., (Gamble Bay) filed tariff 
revisions with the Commission designated as:

   First Revision Sheet No. 20
   Canceling
   Original Sheet No. 20 - 20J

  The Commission, on December 23, 1998, entered a Complaint and Order 
Suspending Tariff Revisions pending an investigation concerning the changes and 
reasonableness and justness thereof.

  Gamble Bay's revision is to update its service area definition and number of 
service areas.  Gamble Bay serves approximately 250 customers located on 13 
water systems on Bainbridge Island and near Poulsbo.

  This tariff revision defines Gamble Bay’s Commission Service Areas to consist 
of all present customers.  This definition is consistent with Commission 
Service Area as defined in WAC 480-110-021 (6).  Any potential new hookups are 
considered outside the service area and will pay additional fees (facilities 
and service connection charges) stated elsewhere in the company’s tariff.  New 
connections to any Gamble Bay water systems will become part of its Commission 
service area upon payment of all tariffed fees or charges and physical 
connection to any Gamble Bay water system as listed in the tariff.

  The update lists separately the water systems of Northwood (DOH ID# 62100E) 
and Pinewood (DOH ID# 45507P) and adds the following water systems:

Johanson Water Kitsap County  DOH ID# 36782F
Piper Water  Kitsap County  DOH ID# 00887P
Rimrock Water Snohomish County  DOH ID# 01916K

  Customer notice was not provided for this rate filing because potential 
applicants or customers are unknown.

  Staff has now completed its investigation and concludes that the tariff 
revisions do not result in discrimination among customers receiving like and 
contemporaneous service and that the filing herein does not injuriously affect 
the charges and rates for water service rendered by respondent.
  
FINDINGS

  1. Gamble Bay Water, Inc., is a water company and as such is a public service 
company subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission.

  2. The tariff revisions presently under suspension herein are not considered 
to be unreasonable.

  3. It is not contrary to the public interest that the Complaint and Order 
Suspending Tariff Revisions in this docket be dismissed and that the tariff 
revision become effective March 11, 1999.

  4. This order in no way affects the authority of this Commission over rates, 
service, accounts, valuations, estimates or determination of costs, or any 
matters whatsoever as an acquiescence in any estimate or determination of 
costs, or any valuation of property claimed or asserted.

O R D E R

  THE COMMISSION THEREFORE ORDERS That the Complaint and Order Suspending 
Tariff Revisions in Docket UW-981517, dated November 30, 1998, is dismissed, 
and that the tariff revisions filed herein November 30, 1998, shall become 
effective March 11, 1999.

           DATED at Olympia, Washington, and effective this 10th day of March, 
1999.

   WASHINGTON UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION



      MARILYN SHOWALTER, Chairwoman




      RICHARD HEMSTAD, Commissioner




      WILLIAM R. GILLIS, Commissioner