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18 M <br /> NORTH CAROLINA ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF <br /> COMMISSIONERS RESOLUTION <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> WHEREAS 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 wastewater 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 />