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• <br /> WASTEWATER COLLECTION AND PURCHASE CONTRACT <br /> This Contract for the Sale and Purchase of Wastewater Collection and <br /> Treatment Services is entered into as of the 2,4 day of 1=e-4 . , 19 57 , <br /> between the TOWN OF HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA hereinafter referred to as <br /> the "TOWN" and ORANGE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA hereinafter referred to as the <br /> "COUNTY" ; <br /> WHEREAS, it is the intent of the County to construct a wastewater <br /> collection system to serve an area of Cheeks Township, Orange County, North <br /> Carolina to address health problems related to the failure of septic tanks <br /> and other individual and package subsurface sewage treatment systems; and <br /> WHEREAS, the County neither owns nor operates a wastewater treatment <br /> facility; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Town operates a wastewater collection system and <br /> wastewater treatment facility with the capacity to receive and treat <br /> wastewater generated by the wastewater collection system proposed to serve <br /> an area of Cheeks Township; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Town is willing to make its wastewater collection system <br /> and wastewater treatment facility available to receive and treat wastewater <br /> generated by the County' s wastewater collection system, but only upon the <br /> conditions and subject to the limits hereinafter set forth; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Town is willing to charge for the County's initial connec- <br /> tions to the system availability fees that are lower than normal and to <br /> charge a reduced monthly service charge in the interest of intergovernmen- <br /> tal cooperation and on the basis that: (i ) the County' s principal objec- <br /> tive in constructing its wastewater collection system is to relieve public <br /> health problems caused by failing sewage treatment systems at the Efland <br />