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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: February 19, 2008 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 74 <br />SUBJECT: Northern Buckhorn Community/Central Efland Sewer Expansion Project <br />Update and Scheduling Public Hearing for Engineer's Report <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />County Engineer's Project Update and <br />Projected Timeline County Engineer, 919-245-2303 <br />Draft advertisement for Public Hearing <br />Preliminary Engineer's Report <br />(Notebooks Previously Provided to <br />BOCC at February 5, 2008 Regular <br />Meeting) <br />PURPOSE: To present: 1) an update on the northern Buckhorn community/central Efland <br />sewer expansion project; 2) the draft or preliminary Engineer's Report for BOCC review; and <br />3) a proposal to schedule the. EPA-required (for. grant funded projects) public hearing for the <br />Engineer's Report. <br />BACKGROUND: The planning process for the construction project for expanding or providing <br />the northern Buckhorn and central Efland communities access to a wastewater collection <br />system has been on the planning board since January, 2005. At the outset of the project, it was <br />intended to include not only the areas referenced above, but the water and wastewater systems <br />designated to serve the southern Buckhorn community, the Buckhorn EDD and the Gravelly Hill <br />Middle School as well. The portion of the project serving the southern Buckhorn community, <br />the Buckhorn EDD and the Gravelly Hill Middle School was split out of the larger project, to <br />enable the Gravelly Hill school to open in the Fall of 2006. That project has been completed, <br />but some issues involving the capacity of the City of Mebane's Industrial Drive wastewater <br />pumping station to serve the northern Buckhorn community remained to be resolved. The City <br />of Mebane has advised, as of late 2007, that the capacity issues have been resolved by <br />replacing the existing pumps in the pumping station. <br />The County is now able to move forward with the northern Buckhorn community/central Efland <br />portion of the project. The cost figures contained in the Engineer's Report for both elements of <br />the project indicate that the total cost of this portion of the project are currently estimated to be <br />approximately $4.27 million or $1.72 million more than the original estimate and the project <br />budget. That problem is compounded by the County's existing and allocated debt capacity <br />limits through FY 2009-10. If the Board elects to move forward with the project as currently