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Page 3 <br />Bingham Township: Cluster of government operations <br />County residents in the immediate area bear the burden of negative <br />environmental impacts from a cluster of government operations <br />from which they do not receive services. 'The add'atiian of a transfer <br />station must be considered in this context, and in recognition of the <br />likelihood of secondary cumulative effects of sprawl and of future <br />unspecified uses by the county of the 14~-acre site, as proposed by <br />county staff. <br />Cane Creek Reservoir and OWASl4, Sewage Sludge <br />Twenty years ago farmers' land was bought and taken by eminent domain <br />by the Orange Water and Sewer Association to create Cane Creek Reservoir <br />west of the project area, supplying water for Chapel Hill and Carrboro but <br />not for Bingham Township. On the property next to Site 056 to the east, <br />OWASA stores and spreads municipal sewage sludge from sewer service <br />provided to fawn residents and businesses, service that is not provided to <br />Bingham Township. <br />Ul~C Research Resource pacility <br />~, _ <br />For four decades the University of Narth Carolina at Chapel Hill has operated <br />the Research Resource Facility on nearby Orange Chapel Clover +Garden <br />Road. The lab animal research facility incinerator generates annually <br />recorded toxic pollutant emissions including mercury and propylene oxide. <br />The UNC facility is currently undergoing a $27 million expansion with plans <br />for 10 or more buildings housing hundreds of dogs and pigs, new roads, and <br />planned use of 1000 gallons per day of well water. From the facility`s animal <br />waste lagoons, up to 10,000 gallons of treated wastewater per day will be <br />sprayed onto fields and woods above a tributary that feeds into Collins <br />Creek. <br />Comments- Orange County ~'ransfer Station Site 056 Errvironmentat Assessment <br />Laura Streitfetd, Preserve Rurat Orange <br />