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WHEREAS, it has been determined by environmental officials that no on-site waste water <br />treatment alternative exists: and <br />WHEREAS, Orange County owns and operates the Efland Sewer System; and <br />WHEREAS, the only two options available for mitigating the discharge are to close the car wash or <br />to discharge the waste into the Efland Sewer System; and <br />WHEREAS, a portion of the Efland Sewer System force main lies along the north side of US Hwy <br />70 and directly across from the Lloyd Car Wash; and <br />WHEREAS, it is Orange County's policy and practice to prohibit force main taps or connections into <br />sewer systems which it owns or in which it participates, including the Efland Sewer System, particularly <br />where the sewer system is not designed for force main taps or connections, because of the risk to the <br />environment and the risk to the proper functioning of the utility system associated with such taps or <br />connections; and <br />WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners has determined that this policy and practice should allow <br />for a force main tap or connection when all of the following are present: <br />1. The land and the facility to be served are located in an Urban or Transition area as <br />identified in the Land Use Element of the Orange County Comprehensive Plan; and <br />2. The connection to the force main will, in all other respects, comply with the Orange <br />County Water and Sewer Policy and will comply with federal, State and Orange County policies, laws, <br />regulations and rules applicable to the sewer system to which the force main connection will be made; <br />and <br />3. The connection will correct a violation of a federal, State or local government policy, law, <br />regulation or rule regulating the discharge of waste water into the waters of the State which violation is <br />the result of a federal, State or local policy, law, regulation or rule requirement which was not a <br />requirement at the time the waste water system serving the land and the facility was constructed; and <br />4. The force main tap or connection will be temporary in that there is a gravity sewer <br />alternative to the force main or connection planned and the probability is that the gravity sewer <br />alternative will be constructed within five (5) years of the force main tap or connection AND the owner of <br />the land and facility, for the owner, the owners heirs and assigns, agrees to pay all fees and costs for <br />and make, in compliance with all federal, State and local policies, laws, regulations and rules in effect at <br />the time of the connection to the gravity sewer line alternative, a sewer tap or connection to the gravity <br />sewer alternative within sixty (60) days after it is available adjacent to the land where the force main tap <br />or connection has been made; and <br />WHEREAS, the force main tap or connection to Lloyd's Car Wash can meet, with the agreement of <br />the owner of Lloyd's Car Wash and the owner of the land upon which it is located, all four of the <br />conditions specified above. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF <br />ORANGE COUNTY THAT: <br />1. The owner of Lloyd's Car Wash and the owner of the land upon which it is located may <br />construct a temporary, pressurized sewer service lateral and tap that lateral into the portion of the Efland <br />Sewer System force main lying directly across US Hwy 70 from the car wash; and <br />2. The owner of Lloyd's Car Wash and the owner of the land upon which it is located shall <br />employ the services of a professional engineer licensed by the State of North Carolina and qualified by <br />virtue of education and experience to practice in the field of sanitary engineering to design a pressurized <br />sewer service lateral system to serve Lloyd's Car Wash; and <br />3. The pressurized sewer service lateral system shall include a high-head low flow grinder <br />pump system including a holding/pump tank and discharge flow metering equipment; small diameter <br />valves, fittings and force main or pressure sewer service lateral extended under US Hwy 70 with <br />encasement piping under US Hwy 70; and a waterproof vault or manhole containing the force main tap <br />and the necessary shut-off and backflow preventing value assemblies; and <br />4. In addition to obtaining system design approval from the Orange County Engineer, the <br />owner of Lloyd's Car Wash and the owner of the land upon which it is located and his/her or their