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A <br /> I <br /> 1 <br /> ORANGECOUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: September 3, 1996 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item # T-- -�_- <br /> SUBJECT: Sewer force main service tap policy <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: Yes x No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): BUDGET AMENDMENT: Yes x No <br /> (Under separate cover) <br /> 1. County Engineer's memo/report INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 2. BOCC 11/20/84 Efland sewer County Engineer Extension 2303 <br /> Resolution <br /> 3. Figures (drawings) from 4/5/84 revision TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> of McAdams' Efland sewer report Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> 4. Figure 8B from 3/12/84 revision of Durham - 688-7331 <br /> McAdams Efland sewer report Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> 5. Ben Lloyd letter requesting sewer service Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 <br /> 6. County letter responding to Lloyd sewer <br /> service request <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 outline current <br /> County efforts/strategies/initiatives to finance expansion of the system; to convey- <br /> as per the request of Commissioner Wilhoit -information related to one current <br /> request to tap onto the Efland sewer system by tapping into the system force main; <br /> and to request that the BOCC provide guidance to staff by providing a policy ruling <br /> on tapping the Efland sewer force main.. <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 nearly all of Efland, available funding was sufficient to construct a <br /> sewer system serving only a portion of the most severely afflicted areas of <br /> Efland. Citizens of the un-sewered portions of Efland have, on several <br /> occasions, requested that the County fund construction of an expansion of <br /> the sewer system. <br />