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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 addition 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 143 -acre site, as proposed by <br />county staff, <br />Cane Creek Reservoir and O1f11ASA Sewage Sludgy <br />Twenty years ago farmers' land was bought and taken by eminent domain <br />by the Orange Water and Sewer Association to creme Cane Creek Reservoir <br />west of the project area, supplying water for Chapel Hill and Carr-boro but <br />not for Bingham Township. On the property next to Site 056 to the easy, <br />OWASA stores and spreads municipal sewage sludge From sewer service <br />provided to town residents and businesses, service that is not provided to <br />Bingham Township,, <br />UNC Research Resource Facility <br />For four decades the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has operated <br />the Research Resource Facility on nearby Orange Chapel Cover 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 wader. From the facility's animal <br />waste lagoons, up t0 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 Transfer Station Site 056 Environmental Assessment <br />Laura Streitfeld, Preserve Rural Orange <br />