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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 1, 2008 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 5 - q <br />SUBJECT: Northern Buckhorn Community/Central Efland Sewer Expansion Project Public <br />Hearing for Preliminary Engineer's Report <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) Yes <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />County Engineer's Project Report and <br />Projected Timeline <br />Public Hearing Advertisement <br />Preliminary Engineer's Report (Previously <br />Provided To The BOCC Under Separate <br />Cover on 2/19/08) <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Paul Thames, 919-245-2303 <br />PURPOSE: To hold the EPA-required (for State and Tribal Assistance Grant funded projects) <br />public hearing on the proposed project's preliminary Engineer's Report. <br />BACKGROUND: The current project to expand or provide the central Efland and northern <br />Buckhorn communities with access to a wastewater collection system has been on the planning <br />board since January, 2005. Plans to expand sewer service in central Efland to eliminate the <br />health issues posed by a significant level of failing septic systems has been a BOCC goal since <br />the early 1980's. At the outset of this project, it was intended to include not only the areas <br />referenced above, but the water and wastewater systems designated to serve the southern <br />Buckhorn community, the southern portion of the Buckhorn EDD and the Gravelly Hill Middle <br />School as well. The portion of the project serving the southern Buckhorn community, the <br />southern section of the Buckhorn EDD and the Gravelly Hill Middle School was split out of the <br />larger project to provide the utility services that would enable the Gravelly Hill school to open in <br />the Fall of 2006. <br />The southern Buckhorn community, EDD and Gravelly Hill Middle school project was completed <br />in early 2007. However, issues involving the capacity of the City of Mebane's Industrial Drive <br />wastewater pumping station to .the initial southern Buckhorn project as well as the upcoming <br />northern Buckhorn community project remained unresolved. Fortunately, the City of Mebane <br />has advised, as of late 2007, that the capacity issues affecting wastewater flow from both the <br />southern and the northern Buckhorn communities have been resolved by replacing the existing <br />pumps in the pumping station. Accordingly, the County may now proceed with the northern <br />Buckhorn community as well as the central Efland portions of the overall project. <br />