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10 <br />Concept Plan presented by OWASA in 2012 including only segments 5, 6, and 8 to <br />serve 67 parcels at an estimated cost of $3.7 million should be funded. <br />4. That the county petition the Town of Chapel Hill to annex all County Owned Property <br />in the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood. <br />5. That the Task Force requests that the Managers explore the collaborative approach <br />to the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood as outlined in February 25, 2013 Memo to <br />Elected Officials (Appendix C) and report back to the Task Force on August 21, <br />2013. <br />6. That the Managers meet and talk about the options related to connecting the <br />residents of the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood to sewer. <br />7. That funding is identified for the cost of connecting from the OWASA infrastructure to <br />the home in addition to applying for grants for low -to- moderate income persons. It is <br />a priority of the Task Force to identify funding not only for the installation of sewer <br />infrastructure but also cost of connections to homeowners. The Task Force <br />recommends that the County and Towns set up a fund specifically for people in the <br />Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood and to fund the cost of the connections from the <br />home to the utility main <br />SEWER SERVICE <br />2012 OWASA Sewer Concept Plan: <br />OWASA is the water & sewer utility for the area and as such, it investigated the concept <br />of providing sewer service as part of the Town of Chapel Hill's Rogers Road Small Area <br />Plan. On February 8, 2011 OWASA provided an updated concept plan and cost <br />estimate, for the Rogers Road Small Area Plan Study Area for $3.4 million. This early <br />concept plan was completed based on the Chapel Hill Small Area Plan which is a <br />geographically different area than the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood sewer <br />concept. There is also some difference in routing some of the main outfalls. In the <br />current estimate, OWASA needed to avoid the area of contamination coming out from <br />the Carrboro section that required more line with deeper excavation. Most importantly, <br />in the earlier estimates neither the availabilities fees was included nor the cost of <br />extending a lateral from the main line to the properties. <br />OWASA provided a concept plan, layout, and cost estimate for providing sewer service <br />to the area that was delineated by the Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force at the <br />April 30, 2012 meeting. The concept plan is the most efficient way to serve the defined <br />4 <br />