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ORANGECOUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: February 18, 1997 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item# /a <br /> SUBJECT: Sewer tap on request by Boone mobile home park <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: —Yes _x_No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): BUDGET AMENDMENT: —Yes_x No <br /> INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> County Engineer Extension 2303 <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Durham - 488-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 <br /> PURPOSE: To advise the BOCC of a recent request by the owner of the Boone mobile home park to <br /> obtain sewer service from the Efland sewer system by means of tapping onto one of the <br /> system's force mains(the Hancor force main). <br /> BACKGROUND: The Boone mobile home park, located on the north side of US Hwy 70 just east of <br /> Frazier Road, was established in the mid-1960's. The park originally consisted of <br /> one permanent"stick-built"residence and twenty mobile home spaces, each provided <br /> with waste treatment by group or individual on-site conventional septic systems. <br /> Since the 1980's many of the park's septic systems have experienced a cycle of <br /> system failure and repair. As systems reached a point where they could no longer be <br /> effectively repaired, the mobile home sites served by the irreparable systems were <br /> vacated and not reoccupied. Ten mobile home sites have been vacated and not <br /> reoccupied since 1990. The Environmental Health Section of the Orange County <br /> Health Department estimates that,within the next five years, additional irreparable <br /> septic system failures will reduce the park capacity by an additional two to four <br /> mobile homes. <br /> As of January 1997, ownership of Boone mobile home park transferred to Mr. Ernie <br /> McBroom. Mr. McBroom has subsequently requested that the County allow <br /> Boone's mobile home park to obtain sewer service from the Efland sewer system. <br /> As the Efland sewer system's gravity collector mains do not extend to any point <br /> within a mile of Boone mobile home park, Mr. McBroom has proposed to obtain <br />