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27 <br /> Piney Mountain Homeowners Association <br /> Mount Sinai Road, Orange County, N.C. <br /> December 22, 1993 <br /> Mr. Robert W. Morgan <br /> Cantioro Town Manager <br /> 301 W. Main Street <br /> Canboro, N.C. 27510 <br /> Re: Piney Mountain <br /> Request for Expedited Review by Carrboro Board of Aldermen <br /> Dear Mr. Morgan: <br /> Petition to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen <br /> Thank you for meeting recently .with Ms. Bes Baldwin, a member of the Piney Mountain <br /> Homeowners Association, concerning Piney Mountain's application to OWASA and the Orange <br /> County Commissioners for permission to install a pressurized sewer line from Piney Mountain <br /> to the City of Durham sewer line at Kerley and Mt. Sinai Road in Durham County. Such a line <br /> would be constructed in accordance with specifications of OWASA and the City of Durham, and <br /> would be restricted to existing lots in the Piney Mountain Subdivision. No new phases or <br /> additions to the subdivision or adjacent to the subdivision would be permitted to utilize the line. <br /> Mr. Ken Wright, Director of Engineering with the City of Durham is in the process of <br /> confirming by letter the willingness of the City of Durham to permit such a hookup to the <br /> Durham City sewer line, and I will forward to you a copy of his letter as soon as I receive it. <br /> Enclosed (attachment 1) is a draft of a nonbinding resolution which we would propose for <br /> consideration by the Carrboro Board of Aldermen at its January 11 meeting. We have drafted <br /> this resolution on the assumption that Canfboro will not approve or disapprove of Piney <br /> Mountain's request; instead, Carrboro will register its concurrence with whatever judgment is <br /> reached by OWASA and Orange County. Is this the correct approach? <br /> How Can Piney Mountain justify an Exception to Current Policy? <br /> As the attached nonbinding resolution shows, Piney Mountain is not requesting an exception to <br /> existing policy. Rather, Piney Mountain falls squarely within existing policy, which provides <br /> that sewer may be extended into the Rural Buffer in cases of public health emergency, such as <br /> a failing septic system. Since Piney Mountain has a failing septic system, it qualifies under the <br /> existing policy. <br /> In addition, Piney Mountain has exhausted all other possible solutions to its sewer problem. <br /> You have already received from Bes Baldwin copies of the soil testing report dated November <br /> 16, 1993 performed by Barrett Kays &Associates, and engineering opinion dated November 24, <br />