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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 30, 1999 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item # ~S', <br />SUBJECT: Connection of the old Redman Mobile Homes building to the Efland sewer system <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: Yes No <br />ATTACHMENT(S)• BUDGET AMENDMENT: Yes No <br />County Engineer's memorandum INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Buckhorn Road Economic Development County Engineer Extension 2303 <br />District! West Efland-Cheeks sewer map <br />(under separate cover) TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br />Durham - 688-7331 <br />Mebane - 227-2031 <br />Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 <br />PURPOSE: To present the BOCC's with: 1) information related to a proposed extension of the Efland <br />sewer system as necessary to serve the existing Redman Mobile Home building, located <br />on Redman Crossing in the western end of the Efland-Cheeks community;.and 2) a <br />recommendation that the Boazd agree - at least in principal - to: a) allow the Redman <br />Mobile Home building to be provided with sewer service from the Efland sewer system by <br />means of a wastewater pumping station and force main; and b) enter into an agreement or <br />agreements as necessazy with the Bazber & Ross Company (proposed occupant of the <br />Redman Mobile Homes building), Norfolk-Southern Railroad/NC Railroad Company and <br />NCDOT whereby the County accepts ownership/maintenance responsibility for <br />approximately 3000 feet of wastewater force main to be constructed by Barber &. Ross in <br />the railroad and NCDOT rights-of--way between the Redman Homes building (along <br />Redman Crossing and Hwy 70) and the western end of the gravity portion of the Efland <br />sewer system. <br />BACKGROUND: The Redman Mobile Homes building is a large unoccupied structure owned by the <br />Town of Mebane and located on Redman Crossing, adjacent to the south side of the <br />Norfolk-Southern Railroad, in the western end of the Efland-Cheeks community. <br />Barber & Ross, a lazge millwork company headquartered in Virginia, proposes to <br />buy the building and convert it for use in manufacturing and assembling millwork. <br />Currently the facility is served by an off-site (on an adjacent and contiguous tract) <br />septic system of questionable capacity and reliability. Barber & Ross have <br />approached Orange County about extending sewer service from the Efland sewer <br />system to the facility. <br />