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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: January 18, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~'-4 <br />SUBJECT: Award of Professional Services Contract for Geotechnical/Environmental <br />Investigation at Fairview Park <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager/Purchasing PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Professional Services Contract Paul Thames, ext 2303 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To approve the award of a professional services/engineering consulting contract to <br />Trigon Engineering Consultants, Inc., for the geotechnical investigation and a Phase I and <br />preliminary Phase II environmental investigation at the Fairview Park Landfill and the adjacent <br />Town of Hillsborough tract <br />BACKGROUND: Orange County currently owns a 40 acre tract, known as Fairview Park, <br />which contains approximately twenty acres of abandoned landfill area once owned and <br />operated by the Town of Hillsborough. Within the last year, some residents of the Fairview Park <br />community constructed a "sand-lot" type baseball field in the northwestern end of the park, in an <br />area thought to have been used for landfill activities. <br />Adjacent to Fairview Park on the east side, the Town of Hillsborough currently owns a 26 acre <br />tract. This tract is and has been primarily undeveloped and unused with the exception of <br />approximately 6 acres which has been used for a yard waste storage, grinding and mulching <br />operation. <br />The Town of Hillsborough and Orange County have agreed in principle to evaluate the joint use <br />of the Town and County properties for development of athletic fields and other associated public <br />purposes. However, much of the land in question has been historically used for landfilling <br />activities and little is known about the structural bearing capacity of the landfilled areas or the <br />presence of environmental contaminants. Accordingly, the Town and the County have agreed <br />that it is desirable and necessary to investigate the geotechnical and environmental <br />characteristics of the property to determine if it is has reasonable utility for recreational <br />development and if it represents a potential threat to public health and the environment. <br />Together the Town and the County have budgeted a total of $30,000 ($ 11,400 from the Town <br />and $18,600 from the County) to cover the cost of a geotechnical investigation and an initial <br />environmental analysis of the property. <br />