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Christmas forecast Tuesday morning should bring us more gray skies with rain likely throughout the day with temperatures in the low-40s and overnight lows in the mid-30s. Showers and highs in the 40s are expected through the week.
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Santa Claus made a special pre-Christmas visit to the Bonney Lake Senior Center this past week to drop off gifts for the good boys and girls in attendance for the Senior Center’s annual Christmas lunch Dec. 20. Photo by Daniel Nash
Despite a city ordinance requiring mandatory garbage collection service within city boundaries, hundreds of residents of Bonney Lake aren’t signed up. This month, nearly 500 letters went out from DM Disposal, the city’s waste pickup provider, reminding residents who are not signed up for the service of the law. “This phenomenon is something they are seeing throughout their service area,” said Bonney Lake Facilities and Special
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Eastown sewers cost an estimated $2.4 million By Brian Beckley Staff Writer
The first draft of a new Utility Latecomers Agreement between the city of Bonney Lake and the Eastown landowners estimates the total cost of the “backbone” system to be $2,471,790. The total cost of construction, however, is estimated at $1,814,100. At that estimate,
the 5 percent to be contributed by the landowners comes to $90,705. Public Works Director Dan Grigsby said the difference between the two numbers, $566,985, comes primarily from design work and purchases of land and easements for the projects. By city code only the ULA partner’s contribution is 5 percent of con-
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This map details plans for the “backbone” sewer system recently approved for the Eastown section of Bonney Lake. Photo courtesy city of Bonney Lake.
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