Agenda Date:  April 28, 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 an Order Dismissing Complaint and Order Suspending Contract and Granting 
Contract Approval in Docket UW-990428, as 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.

The Commission, on March 31, 1999, entered a Complaint and Order Suspending 
contract pending an investigation concerning the changes and the reasonableness 
and justness thereof.  Gamble Bay has now provided information answering water 
staff's request.

Staff recommends that the Commission issue an Order Dismissing Complaint and 
Order Suspending Contract and Granting Contract Approval in Docket UW-990428, 
as filed by Gamble Bay Water, Inc.