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3 MEMORANDUM TO: County Commissioners John Link, County Manager Geoff Gledhill, County Attorney Marvin Collins, Planning Director Ron Holdway, Environmental Health Supervisor FROM: Paul Thames, PE, County Engineer DATE: March 13, 1997 SUBJECT: Boone mobile home park/Ernie McBroom request to obtain sewer service from the Efland sewer system by taping onto the existing Hancor force main On 4 February 1997, Mr. Ernie McBroom met with County staff to discuss obtaining sewer service from the Efland sewer system for Boone mobile home park. Boone mobile home park is located on the north side of US Hwy 70 just east of Frazier Road and west of Hancor, Inc. It is in an area classified as"ten- year transition" in the land use element of Orange County's Comprehensive Plan and is currently zoned as agricultural/residential. It is also in an area designated to eventually receive municipal sewer service from the Efland sewer as evidenced by its inclusion as Phase VI (of six phases) in the Efland sewer master plan. Boone mobile home park lies within one-half mile of the northern boundary of the Buckhorn Road Economic Development District. Currently, no segment of the gravity sewer collector portion of the Efland sewer system extends to any point within a mile of Boone mobile home park. Boone mobile park, established in the mid-1960's, originally consisted of one permanent"stick-built" residence and twenty mobile home spaces located on three tracts of land totaling approximately 2.75 acres. The permanent dwelling and the mobile home sites were each provided with waste treatment by group or individual on-site conventional septic systems. Since the 1980's many of the park's septic systems have experienced a cycle of system failure and repair. As systems reached a point where they could no longer be effectively repaired, the mobile home sites served by the irreparable systems were vacated and not reoccupied. Ten mobile home sites were vacated and not reoccupied during the period between 1990 and late 1995. The Environmental Health Section of the Orange County Health Department has estimated that, within the next five years, additional irreparable septic system failures will reduce the park capacity by an additional two to four mobile home sites. Mr. McBroom purchased Boone mobile home park in January 1997 with the intention of restoring the park to its original twenty mobile home capacity. Mr. McBroom, realizing that the existing on-site waste treatment systems serving the park cannot permanently support even ten mobile homes, requested that the County provide Boone mobile home park with sewer service from the Efland sewer system. As the Efland system's gravity collection network does not serve the Boone mobile home park vicinity, Mr. McBroom has proposed to obtain sewer service via the existing and relatively nearby Hancor sewer force main.