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consumption is 6 .0 MGD , while the population served is approximately 52,000 persons . The Mason Farm waste treatment plant serves the Chapel Hill—Carrboro area and has a treatment capacity of 8 .0 MGD [million gallons per day] . The population served by the plant is 45 ,000 and the average daily wastewater load is 5 .2 MGD . OWASA has defined its current service area -- areas with water and sewer Lines in place , or areas where extension of existing Lines can be easily accommodated . OWASA has also delineated tentative future service areas -- where lines might be extended in the future , but at considerable expense . In Looking at possibilities for water and sewer extensions , it is important to look at drainage basins . There are four mein drainage basins in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area : — Bolin Creek Basin ., containing developed and developing areas to the northwest and east of Chapel Hill and North of Carrboro . — Lower Mogan C_ceejs Bgsjn._ containing newly developing areas to the south . — University Lake Basin . containing undeveloped or sparsely developed areas west of Carrboro . — Nevi Hope Creek Basin ., containing developing areas to the north Bolin Creek and Lower Morgan Creek basins can all be served , ultimately , by a gravity sewer collection system that will feed into OWASA 's existing wastewater treatment facility . Sewer lines have not been extended into University Lake Basin , and Orange County , Chapel Hill and Carrboro have committed to keeping this basin sparsely developed in order to protect the area 's water supply (University Lake) . Significant questions are being posed, however , about whether or not sewer service should be extended into the New Hope Creek basin to the north , since substantial portions of Duke Forest are Located there . Extensive development in that basin may upset the research and educational aspects of that facility . Maps of these basins and existing land use shows that there is a great deal of undeveloped land in the Bolin Creek basin , most of it northwest of Chapel Hill and north of Carrboro , remaining and considerable undeveloped land in the Lower Morgan Creek Basin to the south . These are all areas that can be served by gravity sewer systems . The New Hope Creek basin cannot easily be served , since it is "over the ridge" from the existing wastewater collection system and treatment plant . Alternative means of providing wastewater collection , treatment and disposal services in the New Hope Creek basin are: — Major pump station and force main — Limited number of smaller , interim pump stations — Construction of a new wastewater treatment facility — Series of private package treatment facilities — Individual on—site wastewater disposal systems rDnppo ri;at j 4n, 33