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r <br /> 1 <br /> ORANGECOUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA rrFM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: October 1, 1996 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item # <br /> SUBJECT: Efland sewer force main tap resolution <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: Yes x No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): BUDGET AMENDMENT: Yes x No <br /> Resolution INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> County Engineer Extension 2303 <br /> County Attorney 732-2196 <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 <br /> PURPOSE: To present the BOCC with a resolution permitting the connection of sewer service for <br /> Lloyd's Car Wash, located at the southeastern corner of the intersection of US Hwy 70 <br /> and Efland-Cedar Grove Road in the community of Efland, by tapping into the portion of <br /> the primary Efland sewer force main lying near that intersection. <br /> BACKGROUND: Orange County has been approached for assistance with an urgent need to provide <br /> an acceptable waste treatment option for waste wash water generated by Lloyd's <br /> Car Wash which is located on Hwy 70 in central Efland. Mr. A. B. (Ben)Lloyd, <br /> Jr., has represented to Orange County that he is the sole owner of the business and <br /> the land on which it is located. Mr. Lloyd is under a long-standing order by state <br /> environmental regulatory authorities to curtail the current practice of discharging <br /> untreated wash water to the land surface adjacent to the car wash. The two <br /> options available which will allow Mr. Lloyd to comply with this order are to <br /> (1) close the car wash or(2) discharge the waste wash water into the Efland sewer <br /> system. In March 1996 Mr. Lloyd requested that the County grant permission to <br /> connect the car wash to the Efland sewer system by means of tapping into the <br /> system force main lying close by his property. County staff denied Mr. Lloyd's <br /> request to tap the force main and suggested that he obtain sewer service by <br /> extending a small diameter force main from the car wash to the McGowan Creek <br /> pumping station. The cost of the staff suggested alternative was not acceptable to <br />