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P 2 The BOCC has indicated that the County will not fund system expansion using County-wide tax revenues. Over the past five years, other system expansion funding strategies including sewer user fees, CDBG funding, Clean Water Bond grant funding, sewer service tax districts and an assortment of assessment methods, have been evaluated by County staff. County CDBG funding applications have been turned down by the state on two occasions. Clean Water Bond grant funding has been very scarce for the last ten years and qualification requirements remain very difficult to meet. Assessment and sewer use rate strategies have been shown to be too costly for existing and potential sewer customers to bear. The property value of central Efland is too low to support tax district financing of sewer system expansion. There are several potential strategies and combinations of strategies which may provide hope for financing expansion of the Efland sewer system. CDBG funding requirements for infrastructure improvements have been recently modified to the point that sewer expansion may be eligible for grant funding. The County is funding engineering consultant work that will provide the reports and construction documents that are prerequisite to qualifying for federal and state grant funding. The BOCC, Planning Board and County staff are working to define and develop the Buckhorn Road EDD. This may, in turn, eventually provide a significant property tax base which could be integrated into an Efland sewer tax district and used to subsidize the Efland sewer system. Any of these strategies, if successful, would at least reduce the financial burden of system expansion and operation on the citizens of Efland. One citizen of Efland, Mr. A- B. (Ben)Lloyd, Jr., has an urgent need to provide an acceptable waste treatment option for waste wash water generated by his car wash located on Hwy 70 in central Efland. He is under long-standing order by state environmental regulatory authorities to curtail his current practice of discharging untreated wash water to the land surface adjacent to his car wash. From a practical standpoint, his only two options are to close the car wash or to discharge the waste wash water into the Efland sewer system. He has requested that the County grant him permission to connect to the Efland sewer system by means of tapping into the system force main lying close by his property. County staff have refused his request to tap the force main. Staff has suggested that he acquire sewer service sewer by means of extending a small diameter force main from his property to the McGowan Creek pumping station. The staff alternative requires that Mr. Lloyd install an additional 1200 to 1400 feet of force main at an additional cost of approximately $7000. To date, the staff recommended sewer service option has not proven satisfactory to Mr. Lloyd.