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ORANGE GOUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: December 3, 2007 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. (p - 2. <br />SUBJECT: Authorization for OWASA to Accept Wastewater Flow from the Blenheim <br />Woods Subdivision in Durham <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager <br />and Co <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Packet from OWASA Containing the <br />Documents Applicable to this Service <br />Extension <br />Minutes from 9/20/07 AOG Meeting <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Ed Kerwin, OWASA Executive Director <br />919-968-4421 <br />PURPOSE: To present for the BOCC's approval and authorization a request from the City of <br />Durham and the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) to allow the connection of the <br />proposed Blenheim Woods subdivision (located within Durham City and County) to the OWASA <br />wastewater collection system. <br />BACKGROUND: OWASA has received a request from :the City of Durham that OWASA <br />provide wastewater collection utility service to a new development immediately adjacent to and <br />on the Durham side of the existing Durham/OWASA service area boundary. The City has made <br />this request so that it may avoid having to build a wastewater pumping station to convey the <br />wastewater load from the proposed 57 residences of the subdivision to its own gravity collection <br />system. If OWASA is to accept this proposal, the City of Durham would design, construct, <br />finance, operate and maintain a collection system, meeting its own design and operational <br />criteria, that would then be connected to OWASA's nearby wastewater collection infrastructure. <br />OWASA would then bill the City of Durham for the cost of service as it would any sewer utility <br />customer. OWASA's costs would be only those associated with maintaining its own <br />infrastructure and treating the wastewater, and those costs would be recovered in full through <br />the sewer charges to the City of Durham. <br />Durham's request represents a "wastewater transfer" according to the tenets of the Water and <br />Sewer Management, Planning, and Boundary Agreement, to which OWASA is a party along <br />with Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, and Orange County. OWASA is sensitive to the fact <br />that by accepting flows from this development or any other development outside of the OWASA <br />service area, OWASA would be committing the necessary facility and applicable nutrient mass <br />load capacities that meet the needs of that development. That means such capacity and nutrient <br />mass load will not be available to meet OWASA's customer needs within its normal service <br />area. OWASA recognizes that if it is to be the service provider for this development, it must <br />