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• ATTACHMENT B. <br />Orange County Board-of Commissioners <br />RESOLUTION <br />WHEREAS the Efland- Cheeks Elementary School, one of the schools <br />in the Orange County School System, has experienced <br />and continues to experience serious problems with its <br />wastewater treatment facili ties ' in that those facilities <br />have failed in the past and now, although functioning, <br />are not doing so properly; and <br />WHEREAS the improperly functioning wastewater treatment <br />,facilities are discharging incompletely treated sewage <br />into McGowan Creek, a stream that is part of the Upper <br />Eno watershed with a II -A nutrient sensitive <br />classification by the State; and <br />WHEREAS incompletely or poorly treated sewage is also entering <br />McGowan Creek and other streams that are part of the <br />Upper Eno watershed as the result of malfunctioning or <br />non - functioning septic tanks in the Efland Estates <br />Subdivision: and other areas in the watershed; and <br />WHEREAS the cause of the improperly functioning wastewater <br />systems is the pervasiveness of soil types in this <br />region of Orange County which do not provide a <br />geologically suitable medium for subsurface wastewater <br />treatment systems; and <br />WHEREAS the Upper Eno watershed provides the raw water supply <br />for Corporation Lake, the source of raw water for the <br />Orange- Alamance water system and for Lake Ben <br />