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4 The BOCC never formally adopted or accepted the McAdams report or its recommendations. However, in a resolution adopted on November 20, 1984, the BOCC did state that the County would construct the portion of the system designated as"Phase I of the Project Engineer's Preliminary Report, 5h Edition dated April 5h, 1984, last revised August 7, 1984". The resolution went on to qualify its intention by stating that"The System will be undertaken and funded by Orange County only if at least 179 persons, firms or,corporations located in Phase I of the Project Area apply for connection to and sewer service for existing dwellings and businesses during the initial application period". The resolution also provided that an additional fourteen homes and businesses located adjacent to Phase I(primarily in Phase II) could be served by the initial sewer construction project if it were financially feasible to construct the sewer collection lines necessary to serve these properties as an addition to the Phase I construction project. During November and December of 1984 and January of 1985, Orange County Commissioners and staff and Efland community volunteers organized something similar to a membership drive. The purpose of the drive was to convince residents of Efland to sign up for sewer service in numbers sufficient to meet the 179 sewer services minimum established by the BOCC's 11/20/84 resolution. In preparation for the sewer service sign-up process, 198 sewer service request documents were prepared for the signature of 178 individuals (or businesses or organizations) to request 213 sewer taps(twenty individuals, organizations, etc., requested more than one tap). However, twenty-two of the sewer service taps covered by signed sewer service request documents were on property parcels located outside the boundaries of Phase I as delineated in the McAdams report. Sewer service request documents for another twenty four taps which would have been located in Phase I were never signed by the property owners. Ultimately, one hundred sixty-seven qualifying(meeting the requirements or conditions set forth in the BOCC's 11/20/84 resolution)requests for sewer service were submitted to or received by Orange County by the January 31 , 1985 sewer service request deadline. In February 1985, Orange County engaged another engineering consulting firm, Hazen and Sawyer, to revise the McAdams' engineering report and to provide actual sewer system design and construction administration services. Hazen and Sawyer modified McAdams' preliminary sewer design layout (gravity and force main pipe routing, number and location of pump stations) and slightly revised the delineation of the individual phases within the overall phasing plan. Hazen and Sawyer's detailed sewer layout work and cost estimation indicated that construction of the portion of Phase I east of Efland-Cedar Grove Road (SR 1004)would not be economically feasible, given the funds available from the County and various state and federal grants and loans. Hazen and Sawyer completed the design for Phase II and the western portion of Phase I in early 1987. The sewer project bid was configured such that Phase II portion was bid as an alternate. Bids were taken and, due to cost considerations, Phase II was deleted and a construction project encompassing only the western portion of Phase I was begun. The Efland sewer system was completed and began operation in October 1988. Since 1988, the Efland sewer customer base has expanded only slightly beyond the 115 initial customers living in the areas served by the portion of the system that was constructed. Twenty-three new taps have been installed, but two of these taps and approximately fifteen of the first taps that were installed during system construction have gone unused. The original and the new taps that have been unused were installed at buildings that have been unoccupied, lacked plumbing facilities or where the home/building owners have either been unwilling or financially unable to tap on. 2