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34 <br /> Carrboro Board of Aldermen <br /> Nonbinding Resolution <br /> in regard to the installation of municipal sewer line <br /> to the Piney Mountain Subdivision <br /> WHEREAS the Piney Mountain Subdivision ('Piney Mountain') is located on Mt. Sinai <br /> Road in Orange County, N.C. in the area designated as the "Rural Buffer" by the Joint Planning <br /> Agreement dated November 2, 1987 among Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro ("1987 <br /> Joint Planning Amt'); and <br /> WHEREAS, the 1987 Joint Planning Agreement and the Joint Planning Land Use Plan <br /> among Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro (adopted in October 1986 and amended in <br /> April 2, 1990 - "Joint Planning Use Plan") each provides that the Rural Buffer "will not require <br /> urban services (public utilities and other town services);" and <br /> WHEREAS, the Joint Planning Use Plan also acknowledges that the Orange Water and <br /> Sewer Authority ("OWASA"), as the provider of water and sewer in the Joint Planning Area, <br /> extends water and sewer in accordance with the adopted policies of the applicable local <br /> governments; and that the applicable policy of Orange County for the Rural Buffer is to extend <br /> water and sewer only to provide service to an essential public service, such as a school, or to- <br /> remedy a public health emergency, such as a failing septic tank or failing package treatment <br /> plant; and <br /> WHEREAS, Piney Mountain has a failing community low pressure pipe sewerage <br /> disposal system ('LPP System'); and <br /> WHEREAS, Piney Mountain, after a complete investigation with the assistance of soil <br /> scientists and Orange County Engineers and Health Department staff, has established that the <br /> LPP System has been installed in unsuitable soils and that there is insufficient repair area either <br /> existing or available for purchase; that, even in suitable soils, the LPP System has been so <br /> poorly designed, constructed and maintained that it is likely that it would never perform <br /> adequately, regardless of funds spent; that other alternatives such as an NPDES discharge system <br /> (treatment plant) are not feasible; and that the only solution to providing sewer service to its 58 <br /> homesites is to install and maintain, at Piney Mountain's expense, a pressurized sewer line from <br /> Piney Mountain to the City of Durham municipal line at the intersection of Kerley and Mt. Sinai <br /> Roads ("Sewer Line'); and <br /> WHEREAS, Piney Mountain has secured the approval of the City of Durham to connect <br /> the Sewer Line with that of the City of Durham provided that Piney Mountain also secures the <br /> approval of OWASA; and <br /> Pxarrboro <br />