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2 <br />ORANGE WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY <br />A public, non-profit agency providing water, sewer and reclaimed water services <br />to the Carrboro-Chapel Hill community. <br />January 16, 2015 <br />Chair Earl McKee <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />PO Box 8181 <br />Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />Dear Chair McKee: <br />We are pleased to submit this report on our services and initiatives in 2014for your February 3, <br />2015meeting. I request a couple of minutes to make brief comments about our work and will be <br />available to receive feedback and answer questions. <br />Preliminary engineering study for sewers in Historic Rogers Road <br />OWASA entered an interlocal agreement with Orange County in June 2014 to do a preliminary <br />engineering study for extending sewers in the Historic Rogers Road Area. In the summer and <br />fall of 2014, we worked with the Jackson Center to inform residents about plans for the study <br />and to get permission from 57 owners to go on their land to gather information needed for the <br />study. <br />Our consultant, URS Corporation (URS),is checking the topography at several locations, getting <br />soil samples and checking the location of underground utilities in the study area. URS will use <br />the information to evaluate the potential routes for sewers and update the preliminary estimate of <br />costs (initial preliminary estimate was about $5.8 million). Our cpreliminary <br />engineering report is on schedule for completion in March 2015. <br />To keep the project moving, our staff is working with County staff to draft a new interlocal <br />agreement for the next phase of the project including design, bidding, permitting and installation <br />of sewers. We understand the importance of this project and we will continue to work with <br />County staff to provide our assistance. <br />Biosolids Management <br /> <br />We are conducting a two-part study of biosolids management. The first part, which staff <br />recently completed, was a comparison of the social, financial, and environmental performance of <br />land application of liquid biosolids versus dewatering all of our biosolids for recycling at a <br />private compost facility.A copy of ishere. <br />On January 8, 2015, after receiving comments from several citizens including several Orange <br />County farmers participating in our program,we agreed to continue recycling liquid biosolids on <br />farmland through 2015, and continue recycling about half of our biosolids through composting of <br />dewatered biosolids. <br />400 Jones Ferry Road Equal Opportunity Employer Voice (919) 968-4421 <br />Carrboro, NC 27510-2001 Printed on Recycled Paper www.owasa.org <br /> <br />