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ORANGECOUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: August 4, 1997 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item # /O-a <br /> SUBJECT: Sewer Service Expansion Options-Boone Mobile Home Park <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): BUDGET AMENDMENT: Yes )( No <br /> County Engineer's report INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> County Engineer Extension 2303 <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 <br /> PURPOSE: To present for the BOCC's information a report outlining the integration of strategies for <br /> providing Mobile Home sewer service to Boone Park with the existing master planned <br /> extension of sewer service to the Perry Hills area. <br /> BACKGROUND: In Februray 1997, the BOCC was approached by Mr. Ernie McBroom, the new <br /> owner of Boone Mobile Home Park, about failing septic systems serving the homes <br /> in the park and potential public health problems related to those failures. He <br /> requested that the BOCC allow him to construct a sewer collection system within <br /> the park to connect the collection system to the nearby Hancor sewer force main <br /> system. The BOCC directed staff to investigate the Boone Mobile Home Park <br /> situation and bring back a report and a recommendation to the Board. At the March <br /> 18`h meeting, staff presented a report and recommended that the BOCC deny <br /> permission to tap onto the Hancor force main. The BOCC narrowly supported the <br /> staff recommendation but directed the staff to look at other options for providing <br /> adequate sewer to Boone Mobile Home Park. <br /> County staff has since developed and evaluated three potential alternatives that could <br /> provide sewer for Boone Mobile Home Park. Alternate 1 involved the purchase of <br /> land containing suitable soils adjacent to or nearby the park and the installation of <br /> on-site waste treatment systems. Alternate 2 involved the construction of a force <br /> main sewer collector system that would serve the entire US 70 corridor between <br /> Boone Mobile Home Park and the western end of the Efland sewer system. <br /> Alternate 3 involved the construction of a combination gravity collector/force main <br />