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i DEC-12-1995 11=45 BASS NIXON KENNEDY INC 919 851 8%8 P.01i02 BASS, NIXON & KENNEDY, INC.,CONSULTING ENGINEERS 19 7416 CHAPEL HILL ROAD, RALEIGH, NC 27607 919/851-4422 N FAX 919/851-8968 December 11, 1995 Ms. Mary Willis Orange County Planning Department 306 F Revere Road Hillsborough, N.C. 27278 Dear Mary: In an effort to address concerns raised at the Board of Commissioners meeting Monday night regarding the community water system for University Manor, we have prepared the following summary of regulations and procedures associated with this utility. The water system will be operated by a private utility company franchised by the N.C. Utilities Commission. The Commission monitors the performance of the Utility Company, as well as establishes water billing rates and bonding requirements. The community water system, while not mandatory to develop the property, will provide the most reliable water supply for the subdivision. Individual wells could be installed on each lot as the homes are. constructed. Forty-seven individual wells would have to be drilled to serve this subdivision versus only one or two wells for the community system. The only testing required for the single residence well is for bacterial contamination at its inception, while the community well is tested for more than 100 potential contaminants immediately after installation. Monthly water quality testing 'of the community well is also required after the system is operational. No follow-up testing is required for individual lot wells. Although the community well system represents an additional cost to the developer, it will guarantee each lot an adequate water supply of good quality. The sequence of procedures for permitting and installing the system is as follows: 1. Obtain well site approval from the N.C. Department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources and the Orange County Health Department. 2. Drill wells and determine well yield. As noted by Commissioner Gordon, adequate well yields for community systems in this area can be difficult to obtain. If the two well sites currently ' approved do not provide satisfactory yields, additional well locations will be selected. 3. Perform bacteriological, inorganic, volatile organic chemicals, synthetic organic chemicals and radiological analysis of well sample.