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1 <br /> ORANGECOUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item # X—D <br /> SUBJECT: Efland Sewer report <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: Yes x No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): BUDGET AMENDMENT: . Yes x No <br /> County Engineer's memo INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Figures(drawings) from 4/5/84 revision County Engineer Extension 2303 <br /> of McAdams' Efland sewer report <br /> (Under separate cover) TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 <br /> PURPOSE: To provide the BOCC with historical background information about the process <br /> by which the Efland sewer system was created and defined;to relate information <br /> related to one unusual current request to tap onto the Efland sewer system; and to <br /> outline current efforts/strategies to finance expansion of the system. <br /> BACKGROUND: Beginning in 1981, widespread problems with failing septic tanks and other <br /> waste treatment systems serving residents of the west Efland vicinity and the <br /> Efland Cheeks Elementary School came to the attention of the BOCC. <br /> These problems had potentially serious public health implications and the <br /> BOCC was compelled to initiate a process which would eventually result in <br /> Orange County providing municipal sewer service to a portion of Efland. <br /> Although master planning engineering studies provided a preliminary sewer <br /> design for all of Efland, available funding was sufficient to construct a sewer <br /> system serving only a portion of the most severely afflicted areas of Efland. <br /> Citizens of the un-sewered portions of Efland have, on several occasions, <br /> requested the County fund construction of an expansion of the sewer system. <br /> The BOCC has indicated that the County will not fund system expansion <br /> using County-wide tax revenues. Over the past five years, other system <br /> expansion funding strategies including sewer user fees, CDBG funding, <br />