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F 7 ` 1 ORANGECOUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: December 16, 1997 Action Agenda Item# SUBJECT: Hillsborough sewer easement request DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: Yes x No ATTACHMENT(S): BUDGET AMENDMENT: Yes x No Easement agreement INFORMATION CONTACT: County Engineer Extension 2303 - Under separate cover: easement plat TELEPHONE NUMBERS: orthophoto/tax map Hillsborough - 732-8181 Durham - 688-7331 Mebane - 227-2031 Chapel Hill . - 967-9251/968-4501 PURPOSE: To present a proposed sewer easement agreement to the Board of County Commissioners for its approval and execution BACKGROUND: The Town of Hillsborough has, for some time, experienced operational problems with an aging sewer pump station located at the end of Daye Street in the northern Fairview community. As a part of its ongoing efforts to upgrade its sewer collection system, the Town has planned to replace the Daye Street pump station and force main with a gravity sewer line which will drain toward the south and west. The path of this line crosses a small, undeveloped tract of land (4.32.A.8), owned since 1977 by Orange County- probably by way of a judgment against the property owner for non- payment of property taxes. As with other property owners along the proposed sewer line route, the Town must secure from the County a permanent twenty-foot wide sewer construction, maintenance and access easement across the property. The easement acquisition map and orthophoto/tax map, provided under . separate cover, show the location(vicinity) and configuration of the County's property and the position of the proposed easement on the property. These maps reveal that the County property is a landlocked (having no roadway frontage or access or easement to a roadway),