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/'~f'~'pCit MEMORANDUM TO: County Commissioners John Link, County Manager C~~p~l FROM: Paul Thames, PE, County Engineer DATE: July 28, 1997 SUBJECT: Report on expansion of the Efland Sewer System to serve Boone Mobile Home Park, US 70 west of Efland and Perry Hills community In February 1997, County staff and Mr. Ernie McBroom, the new owner of Boone Mobile Home Pazk, advised the BOCC that several of the individual septic systems serving some of the homes in the park were malfunctioning and represented at least a potential public health problem. Mr. McBroom indicated that he had effected system repairs as directed by the Orange County Environmental Health section but that the repairs were not expected to be sufficient to serve the pazk for the tong term. Mr. McBroom asserted that there were only two economical options that would address the problem over the long term: 1) a sewer collection system could be constructed at the mobile home park and then the collection system could be tied into the existing and relatively nearby Hancor force main system; or 2) the mobile home pazk's residents who were dependent on the failing systems could be compelled to move elsewhere. McBroom requested that the BOCC allow him to connect the pazk to the Hancor force main. The BOCC directed County staffto evaluate Mr. McBroom's request and report back to the Boazd with its findings in March. At the March 18th meeting of the BOCC, staff presented its evaluation of the situation at Boone Mobile Home Pazk and of the related aspects of operating status of the Hancor force main system. On the basis of: a) existing and ongoing operational problems with the Hancor force main system; b) the County's tacit understanding with Hancor as to its sole use of the force main; and c) the County's general utility operation and planning criteria, staffrecommended that Boone Mobile Home Park not be allowed to tap onto the Hancor force main. The BOCC narrowly supported the staff recommendation to deny the tap but directed staffto develop and evaluate waste treatment alternatives which could alleviate the problem at the mobile home pazk. Some of the potential alternaxives mentioned at the BOCC meeting and subsequently examined included: 1}locating azeas having soil suitable for on-site waste treatment systems in obtainable properties adjacent to Boone Mobile Home Pazk; 2) the expansion of the Efland sewer system west along Hwy 70 to serve not only Boone Mobile Home Pazk but also the residents of the area between Boone and the western end of the existing system; and 3) expansion of the Efland sewer system to provide sewer service not only to US 70Boone mobile home pazk azea but the entire Phase VI (US Hwy 70 west and the Perry Hills azea) portion of the Efland sewer master plan. In each of these potential strategies, the goal was to provide economical sewer service to Boone Mobile Home park and perhaps to others in the vicinity needing or desiring sewer service.