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6 <br />1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />29 <br />30 <br />31 <br />32 <br />33 <br />34 <br />35 <br />36 <br />37 <br />38 <br />39 <br />40 <br />41 <br />42 <br />43 <br />44 <br />45 <br />46 <br />47 <br />48 <br />49 <br />50 <br />data is based on outdated assumptions, including $4.7 million for the facility, which is now $8 <br />million. It assumes fuel costs of $2 a gallon, it assumes landfill tipping fees of $20 a ton, and it <br />assumes that all of the towns and UNC will contribute volumes to keep the costs down. She <br />said that in the $52, there is no allocation for routine overhead in the Solid Waste department or <br />the building on Eubanks Road and there is no provision for sudden increases in fuel prices or <br />landfill costs, and there is no allowance to cover the regulatory costs to monitor the landfill after <br />it closes or to fund the Rogers Road improvements. She said that it looks like this is moving <br />from a $1-2 million surplus to a $2-3 million cost. She asked that the fiscal impact be made <br />available to the public. <br />Robert Eichorn spoke about the Efland Sewer. He is a student at UNC and works with <br />Habitat for Humanity. He said that the sewer rates have been raised too high. He asked the <br />Board of County Commissioners to reconsider the high rates and to redo the sewer system. <br />Sam Gharbo said that Orange County's community is very political. He said that a year <br />ago he realized that something was wrong with the sewer rate increase. Six months ago, he <br />presented information because he had done the research and found it. He read from an <br />original contract that was provided to the community in 1984 for customers to be solicited to <br />sign up: <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />Resolution <br />WHEREAS, the Efland-Cheeks Elementary School, one of the schools in the Orange County <br />School system, has continuously experienced serious problems with its wastewater treatment <br />facility, and those facilities have failed in the past and now, although functioning, are not doing <br />so properly; and <br />WHEREAS, the improperly functioning wastewater treatment facilities are discharging <br />incompletely treated sewage into McGowan Creek, a stream that is part of the Upper Eno <br />Watershed with an IIA Nutrient Sensitive classification by the State; and <br />WHEREAS, incompletely or poorly treated sewage system is also entering McGowan Creek <br />and other streams that are part of the Upper Eno wastewater as a result of the malfunctioning <br />or non-functioning septic tanks in the Efland Estates subdivision and other areas in the <br />watershed; and <br />WHEREAS, the cause of the improperly functioning wastewater system is pervasive of soil <br />types in this region of Orange County, which do not provide a geological suitable medium for <br />wastewater treatment systems; and <br />WHEREAS, the Upper Eno Watershed provides the raw water supply for Corporation Lake, the <br />source of raw water for the Orange-Alamance Water System and for Lake Ben Johnson, the <br />source of raw water for Hillsborough Town Water System, which in turn, is the source of treated <br />water for the Orange Water and Sewer Authority in the time of drought; and <br />WHEREAS, all of the above continues to create health hazard that affects a substantial number <br />of people in Orange County, and <br />WHEREAS, on September 13, 1984, the Board of County Commissioners, recognizing the risk <br />of the health, safety, and welfare of the people of Orange County affected by the conditions <br />stated above found that an emergency existed which warranted the issuance of Orange County <br />of Net Debt Reduction General Obligation Bonds in connection with and for the purpose of <br />