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�F1 M Status of Petition to Extend ldater Line and Durham's Response The petition to extend a municipal water line into Eno Township is stall pending with the City of Durham. City officials have deferred any response to this request until the Orange County Board of Commissioners' make a recommendation. The petitioners objective is to solve the immedi- ate problem of well water contamination for the existing land uses, specifically mobile home parks. However, the Public Utilities Department of Durham has indicated that a moderate or large line would be the most feasible to be assured of having sufficient capacity to serve future growth. Therefore city engineers have done preliminary calculations under the assumption that either a 12 inch or 16 inch water line would be installed if there is a positive response to the petition. According to the engineers an 8 'inch or smaller line would not be cost efficient to install.. Technically, both a 12 inch and 16 inch line could be extended to serve elevations below 600 feet. This would mean that a line could be extended along U. S. Route 70 to the intersection where By-pass 70 and Bus 70 separate. The caacity of a 12 inch line if it were extended to this point would be approximately 2.5 mgd (million gallons per day) and 5 mgd if it terminated at the inter- section of V. S. Route 70 with Interstate 85. The capacity of a 16 inch line extended to Bus 7b and By-pass 70 would be 4.5 mgd and 9 mgd if terminated at Interstate 85. Regardless of the technical ability to install and eventually extend these water lines there are short-term and long-term land use planning concerns which need to be reviewed. The short-term considera- tions are primarily related to the development impacts on the area along U. S. 70 where the water line would be installed. The long-term considera- tions include concerns about the impact on the future growth patterns of the county, with particular concern for new industrial and commercial uses. Short--term Considerations The area between the Durham County line and Interstate 85 along U. S. 70 contains a number of different commercial and residential uses but undeveloped vacant land does exist. The following is an analysis of the vacant land in this area: A. Residential 1. A total of 64.9 acres in large lots current vacant 2. 15 vacant lots smaller than l acre 3. A 6.32 acre tract with one dwelling unit B, Mobile Home Park 1. A 49.55 acre tract zoned for MHP with approximately 14 units (Eno Trailer Park) 2. A 3.67 acre tract zoned for IMP with space for 14 units c. Commercial 1. A total of 168,9 acres in vacant land currently zoned commercial - 1 -