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1 ORANGECOUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: September 3, 1996 Action Agenda Item# . SUBJECT: Eno Riverfront/County Campus Park Construction Activities DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: Yes No ATTACHMENT(S): BUDGET AMENDMENT: Yes No None INFORMATION CONTACT: County Engineer Extension 2303 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough - 732-8181 Durham - 688-7331 Mebane - 227-2031 Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 PURPOSE: To provide the BOCC with information regarding proposed construction activities related to placing earth and rock fill in the existing"borrow pit" area within the planned Eno Riverfront park in the County's Hillsborough campus area. BACKGROUND: At the BOCC-Hillsborough Town Commissioners regular quarterly meeting of 13 March 1996, an Eno Riverfront/County campus park report was presented to Town and County elected officials. The substance of the report dealt with the proposed master plan for the park, park structures and the draining and filling of the existing"borrow pit" located in the south east comer of the park. In accordance with the discussion of that meeting, individuals active in the park development process have proposed to begin the process of filling the borrow pit. The specific proposal involves: a) opening a haul route/equipment access way across County property between the unpaved southern end of Cameron Street and the borrow pit; and b)hauling fill material to and spreading fill material in the borrow pit. The actual construction activities proposed for this phase of the fill operation will involve: 1) removing an approximately twenty feet wide section of trees along Cameron Street; 2) constructing a section of gravel surfaced access drive(to reduce the transportation of mud and dirt from the access drive to Cameron Street); 3)removing an approximately sixty feet wide section of trees along the rim of the borrow pit;4)hauling approximately sixty five ten