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1 <br /> O R A N G E C O U N T Y <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: May 17, 1994 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item # --r (-D <br /> SUBJECT: Piney Mountain subdivision utility service extension <br /> agreements <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: Yes S No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> County Attorney (919) 732-2196 <br /> Attachment "A" Agreement County Engineer Ext. 2300 <br /> Attachment "B" Agreement <br /> Attachment "C" Agreement TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 <br /> PURPOSE: To provide the BOCC - for its review and approval - the three <br /> agreements or contracts listed above that are related to the <br /> extension of sewer service to the Piney Mountain subdivision <br /> and that are necessary to satisfy local planning/utility <br /> extension concerns, state high unit cost construction grant <br /> requirements and construction administration/short term <br /> construction financing requirements. <br /> BACKGROUND: The Piney Mountain subdivision, located in the Rural Buffer <br /> area of east-central Orange County, has been afflicted by a <br /> failing waste treatment system. Problems with the Piney <br /> Mountain treatment system have been well documented through <br /> formal and informal reports to the BOCC and through news <br /> media articles. The BOCC, as well as the boards of <br /> Carrboro, Chapel Hill and OWASA, have agreed to allow the <br /> provision of sewer service to the Piney Mountain <br /> subdivision. All of the governing boards have agreed that <br /> OWASA own and operate the system, which is to be connected <br /> to the Durham sewer system. The BOCC and the OWASA board <br /> have also directed staff to provide assistance to the home <br /> owners in the Piney Mountain subdivision in an effort to <br /> seek grant funding for new system construction and repairs <br /> to portions of the existing sewer collection system. The <br /> assistance provided has involved developing and submitting <br /> a grant application to the NC Division of Environmental <br /> Management (DEM) High Unit Cost Grant program and <br /> developing various local agreements necessitated by grant <br /> requirements. <br />