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+ 1 <br /> OR AN G E C 0 U N T Y <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: January 18, 1994 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> item # _ly <br /> SUBJECT: Failure of Piney Mountain subdivision waste treatment system <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: Yes _..A_No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Letter to County Manager County Engineer Extension 2300 <br /> Proposed BOCC resolution <br /> Environmental Health report TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> DEM letter Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Colonial Engineering letter Durham - 688-7331 <br /> City of Durham letter Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Piney Mountain miscellaneous Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 <br /> information packet <br /> PURPOSE: To present to the BOCC a petition from residents of Piney <br /> Mountain subdivision requesting the County's permission to <br /> construct and utilize a pump station and force main system <br /> connecting Piney Mountain's existing sewer collection system <br /> to the City of Durham's sewer collection system and to abandon <br /> Piney Mountain's existing on-site ground absorption waste <br /> treatment system which is malfunctioning and irreparable. <br /> BACKGROUND: Piney Mountain subdivision is a development of fifty-eight <br /> homesites on approximately 120 acres located within Chapel <br /> Hill Township and the Rural Buffer approximately one mile <br /> west of the Orange/Durham County line on the north side of <br /> Mount Sinai Road (SR 1718) . Currently, twenty-four of the <br /> homesites are undeveloped. Four of these remaining lots <br /> are still owned by the developer of Piney Mountain. Waste <br /> treatment for one homesite is provided by an individual on- <br /> site waste treatment unit which existed prior to the <br /> development. Waste treatment for all other existing homes <br /> in Piney Mountain is provided by a community waste <br /> treatment system consisting of two separate subsystems. <br /> Each subsystem includes individual septic and pump tanks at <br /> every home, a pressurized sewer collection system and a low <br /> pressure ground absorption waste disposal system. The <br /> treatment system be characterized as plagued by a multitude <br /> of instances of non-compliance with regulatory <br /> requirements, by design inadequacies, by installation of <br /> nitrification lines in unsuitable soils, by maintenance and <br /> operational problems and by frequent incidents where septic <br /> tank effluent is discharged on the surface of the ground. <br />