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transfer station. She said that they would like to know the fiscal impact. According to the data <br /> from Olver, Inc., there will be a cost associated with the transfer station and no revenue. It <br /> looks like it is going to cost over$50 a ton to use the waste transfer station. She said that this <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 data is based on outdated assumptions, including $4.7 million for the facility, which is now $8 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 <br /> or the building on Eubanks Road and there is no provision for sudden increases in fuel prices <br /> or landfill costs, and there is no allowance to cover the regulatory costs to monitor the landfill <br /> after it closes or to fund the Rogers Road improvements. She said that it looks like this is <br /> moving from a $1-2 million surplus to a $2-3 million cost. She asked that the fiscal impact be <br /> made 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, <br /> the source of raw water for the Orange-Alamance Water System and for Lake Ben Johnson, <br /> the source of raw water for Hillsborough Town Water System, which in turn, is the source of <br /> treated 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 <br /> number of people in Orange County, and <br />