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r" _ . ~~v r John Roberta, Member of the Town Board of Aldermen, stated that the Town oP Hillsborough needed the additional revenue that would be received Prom: the Whittaker Corporation in order to finance and operate the water and sewerage plants and that he heartily endorsed the Whittaker Corporation plans to locate in the Hillsborough area. -- Jack Martia,.'Member_.oP_the Town Board of Aldermen, inquired of Jim Yarborough, the proposed Plant Manager, as to exaatlq how much water would be needed to operate the plant. Mr. Yarborough stated that in the beginning the plant would need 250,000 gallons of water per day, but that in about two years the plant would be using 500,000 gallons of water per day. -- John Pridgan, Town Engineer, stated that even iP the Whittaker Corporation did not legate in the Hillsborough area that the Tawas of Hillsborough ' definitely needed to enlarge its sewerage plant and that when the plant is altered that the Board oP Air and Water Resouroea would require the Town to install a very expensive type oP treatment plant. He stated that the Town, in all probability, could not afford the needed type of treatment system uglesa a substantial water user looated in the area. Commissioner Henry 3. Walker stated that iP the Whittaker Corporation plant could locate in the area without poluting the Eho River he 'would like to have the plant proceed with its plena. Commissioner Ira A. Ward stated that he felt the location oP the Whittaker Corporation, in the Hillsborough area, would produce a tremendous strain on the available natural resouxaea. That any industry which used as much as 3,300 gallons of water per day per job and that hared atlah a small number of people and passesaed suoh a small taxable property valuation was not a desirable industry and he was opposed to the plant locating in the Hillsborough area. Commissioner Norman Walker stated that he waulfl be willing to have the Whittaker Corporation locate in the Hillsborough area as he felt that a i sufficient water supply was available and that the Eno River would nut be polluted by the effluent. ~i Commissioner W311iam C. Raq stated that the Fhginaera study had comrinced him that the Whittaker Corporation would not pollute Eno River and that the County had empounded water in Lake Orange to aid in the industrial development of the County, therefore, he favored the location of the Whittaker Corporation in the County. Chairman Harvey Bennett stated that he felt the memorandum received Prom the Natural and Eaonomia Resources, set forth severe implications as far as both water and sewerage services which could be rendered by the Town was concerned and that ha felt it was further unwise to allocate moat oP the natural resouroea oP the area to .one industry, therefore, he was opposed to the proposed plans of the Whittaker Corporation to locate in the Hillsborough area. Fred Cates, Mayor oP the Town oP Hillsborough, stated that the Tawas badly needed to improve its current water and sewerage facilities and that the Town was not financially able to make the needed improvements unless :.. substantial new water and sewer revenues are obtained. Mayor Cates atatad that the Department oP Natural and Econamio Resources are satisfied that a sufficient water supply is available to serve the Whittaker plant and that both he and the State Department are satisfied that s modern well equipped sewerage plant can adequatelq treat the effluent produced by the Whittaker Corporation, therefore, he was strongly in favor of allowing the Whittaker Corporation to looate in the Hillsborough area. Dissuasion ensued between the Board and Mr. Yarborough relative to the aonstruation of a sewerage line Prom the'.Whittatier-0erporation plant site to the Hillsborough treatment plant. The Board suggested to Mr. Yarborough that the Whittaker Corporation should esaume the coat of constructing said line to the towns treatment plant. Mr. Yarborough replied that he was not empowered to answer this suggestion and that he moat confer with the management oP his company prior to making any committment. Chairman Sennett advised Mr. Yarborough that iP the.Whittaker Corporation could not accept the proposal made by the acrd then the Board would be willing to have a counter proposal from the Whittaker Corporation. _ ~~ - L. There being no further business to some before t~Baard the meeting was adjourned. Harvey D. Bennett, Chairman 8. M. Gattis, Acting Clark ~/ ,