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~OJ~3~ <br />NORTH CAROLINA ORANGE COUNTY BOARp OE <br />COMMISSIONERS RE50LUTION <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />WHEREA5 the Efland-Cheeks Elementary School, one of the <br />schools in the Orange County School System, has <br />experienced and continues to experience serious <br />problems with its waste'wa'ter treatment facilities <br />in that those facilities have failed in the past <br />and now, although functioning, are not doing so <br />properly; and <br />WHEREAS the improperly functioning wastewater treatment <br />facilities are discharging incompletely treated <br />sewage into McGowan Creek, a stream that is part of <br />the Upper Eno watershed with a II-A nutrient <br />sensitive classification by the State; and <br />WHEREAS incompletely or poorly treated sewage is also <br />entering McGowan Creek and other streams that are <br />part of the Upper Eno watershed as the result of <br />malfunctioning or non-functioning septic tanks in <br />the Efland Estates Subdivision and other areas in <br />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 <br />wastewater treatment systems; and <br />WHEREA5 the Upper Eno watershed provides the raw water <br />supply for Corporation Lake, the source of raw <br />water for the Orange-Alamance water system and for <br />Lake Ben Johnson, the source of raw water for the <br />Hillsborough town water system which in turn is a <br />1 <br />