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J <br />OWASA OF~ANGE WATER AND SE~~VER AUTHORITY <br />Quality Service Since Y977 <br />November 9, 2007 <br />Chair Moses Carey, Jr. Mayor Mark Chilton Mayor Kevin Foy <br />Orange County Town of Carrboro Town of Chapel Hill <br />Post Office Box 8181 301 West Main Street 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd <br />Hillsborough, NC 27278 Carrboro, NC 27510 Chapel Hill, NC 27514 <br />SUBJECT: PROPOSED TRANSFER OF WASTEWATER FROM THE CITY OF <br />DURHAIVI TO OWASA FOR THE BLENHEIM WOODS DEVELOPMENT <br />Dear Chair Carey, Mayor Chilton and Mayor Foy: <br />This letter outlines OWASA's strong support and recommendation for your approval of the City <br />of Durham, Department of Water Management's request that OWASA accept wastewater flows <br />from the development of a parcel of property on the west side of George King Road <br />(immediately adjacent to the Durham/OWASA service boundary). Your approval is required in <br />accordance with the interlocal Water and Sewer Management, Planning and Boundary <br />Agreement. <br />BASIS FOR OWASA'S RECOMMENDATION FOR APPROVAL: <br />/ Durham, like OWASA, strongly prefers gravity sewer collection systems because they avoid <br />the increased operational and maintenance costs, increased likelihood for spills and <br />potentially adverse environmental consequences and increased noise and light pollution <br />associated with pump station/force main arrangements. . <br />/ Approval, or disapproval of this request has no "growth" implications for this area. The <br />Blenheim Woods development has already been approved by Durham and will happen, with <br />or without a gravity sewer connection to the OWASA system. <br />/ Durham has confirmed that this is a "one of a kind" request and that they anticipate making <br />no similar requests to OWASA in the future. <br />/ There are no policy or service boundary adjustment implications. Current policy allows <br />approval of the request and no boundary adjustments are involved. <br />/ If approved, OWASA will recover all costs associated with this proposal as part of a written <br />agreement between OWASA and Durham. <br />/ Under an existing agreement requested by the Orange County Board of County <br />Commissioners and OWASA, Durham currently accepts wastewater flows from 59 OWASA <br />customers in the Piney Mountain Subdivision in Orange County. <br />40o Jones Ferry Road Equal Opportunity Employer Voice (919) 968-4421 <br />PO Box 366 Printed on Recycled Paper FAX (919) 968-4464 <br />Carrboro, NC 275io-og66 www.owasa.org <br />