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are significantly less iMportant now due to the influence of the automo- bile and improved transportation networks and the resulting expansion of social spheres. A neighborhood is defined as a small group of farm families who live in close proximity to each other, who personally know one another and to some extent visit among themselves, who recognize a common name for their immediate locality and who are accustomed to working together as a local unit. Their homes are usually centered around a church, store, filling station or school. A community may be defined as a group of neighborhoods which have a natu- ral tending to associate together because of common interests. They tendency to be more arbitrarily delineated that neighborhoods as community members may choose to meet together at different locations even if from the same neighborhood. The community usually possesses one center, however, to which most of its people go fairly often. Residents of Eno Township still identify to some extent with Pleasant Green, Palmer Grove and St. Marys communities. Eno Township is riot currently served by a public sewer system. However, sewer mains from the Town of Hillsborough and the City of Durham currently border Eno Township. "201" sewer plans prepared for these two municipali- ties call for future expansion into Eno Township. Sewer lines from the Town of Hillsborough are projected to include a small area of Eno Township along U.S. 70 by the year 2000. The Greater Durham 201 Facilities Plan proposed future extensions of the City of Durham's sewer system to provide sewer service to the area of Highway 70 near the Orange County/Durham County line. Water lines from the Town of Hillsborough do extend into Eno Township along U.S. 70 Business to its junction with U.S. 70 Bypass, down Old N.C. 10 to its junction with New Hope Road and along Piney Grove Church Road (SR 1711) and Lennie Drive (SR 1831) . The City of Durham is currently extending its water lines into Orange County along U.S. 70 for a distance of abouti.1/2 mile. This extension is to serve residences and mobile home parks in this area whose private water supplies have been contaminated by malfunctioning on-site sewage disposal systems. It is expected that the Hillsborough system will expand into Eno Township to meet the needs for public water. The further expansion of the City of Durham system from the west is less certain because of demands from many areas within Durham City and County for provision of public water and be- cause the City currently has a policy of not extending services into Orange County. Transportation The principal east/west corridor through Orange County traverses southern Eno Township. This corridor is composed of five miles of Interstate 85, five miles of U.S. 70 and several miles of a main line of the Southern Railroad. North/South transportation is much less pronounced in the Township with Pleasant Green Road (SR 1567) serving this function. St. Mary's Road (SR 1002) additionally serves as a transportation link angling north-east across the northern portion of the County from Hillshormuil