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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: January 22, 2015 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 6 -i <br />SUBJECT: Buckhorn Mebane Sewer Phase 2 Extension Project Easements & Pump <br />Station Propertv <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Maps Showing Approved Scope of <br />Project <br />1 <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) NO <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Howard W. Fleming, Jr., PE, <br />Engineering /Stormwater Supervisor, <br />245 -2586 <br />Craig Benedict, Planning Director, 245- <br />2592 <br />James Bryan, Staff Attorney, 245 -2319 <br />PURPOSE: To consider authorizing County Staff to accept and acquire the private easements <br />required to construct and maintain the Buckhorn Mebane Sewer Phase 2 Extension Project by <br />negotiation, purchase or condemnation, if necessary, including purchase of real property for a <br />pump station on the south side of West Ten Road (SR 1146), just west of Thompson Road. <br />BACKGROUND: The County's engineering consultant, Hobbs Upchurch & Associates, P.A., <br />has recently completed design of the subject project and submitted for agency permit reviews, <br />in preparation for issuing construction documents for bids. <br />The project base bid is a little over 5 miles long (26,725 LF). Only 7,287 lineal feet of this <br />system is gravity sewer. The remainder is force main located within existing road right of way. <br />There are three (3) add alternates designed into the project to allow the County to "adjust" the <br />bid(s) to the project budget. <br />An archaeological evaluation of the sewer project corridor has been performed, in accordance <br />with BOCC policy. No archaeological sites were identified. Based upon the results of this <br />investigation, construction of the sewer line in its currently proposed location will not impact any <br />significant cultural resources. The County's consultant recommended to the State that cultural <br />resources clearance to proceed be granted. <br />Consistent with this phase of the project, now that the County is certain of the alignment, <br />easements must be finalized for the sewer lines that need to be installed and a lot created and <br />purchased for the associated pump station. Existing zoning for the pump station site requires a <br />minimum 40,000 square -foot lot. The subdivision plat in process specifies a lot of 40,002 <br />square feet. <br />Orange County staff has contacted each property owner from whom easements are needed by <br />letter to let them know why the County needs the easement, where the easement will be <br />