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ykiq3 <br /> 3 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: June 24 , 1992 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item 4t <br /> SUBJECT: Management Entity Strategies for <br /> Non-municipal Waste Treatment Systems <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENT (S) : Report INFORMATION CONTACT: County Engineer <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 <br /> PURPOSE: To outline strategies for creating a management entity for <br /> control of alternative technology, non-single family, non- <br /> municipal <br /> waste treatment systems <br /> BACKGROUND: The Board of County Commissioners and other elected <br /> • officials and citizens of Orange County have expressed <br /> concern about the reliability of operation and the <br /> associated quality of waste treatment provided by <br /> alternative technology waste treatment systems. This <br /> • <br /> concern has focused, in large part, on non-municipal multi- <br /> family, institutional and commercial waste treatment <br /> systems within the County, particularly those which might <br /> be located in the Rural Buffer and University Lake <br /> watershed areas. Hazen and Sawyer, NC State University, <br /> and the NC Division of Environmental Health have each <br /> conducted studies intended to investigate the quality of <br /> waste treatment provided by alternative technology <br /> treatment systems. The results of these studies has <br /> validated the concerns expressed in the County regarding <br /> the reliability of alternative technology. The studies of <br /> alternative technology waste treatment systems have never <br /> faulted the technology itself but have pinpointed many <br /> cases of operation and maintenance failures which have been <br /> primary cause of treatment problems in alternative <br /> technology systems. A two phase approach has been <br /> suggested as a means of addressing the need to improve the <br /> reliability of alternative technology waste treatment <br /> systems and quality of treatment they provide. The first <br /> phase is the OC Health Department Environmental Health <br /> Section' s proposal to provide monitoring and maintenance <br /> assurance for all non-municipal waste treatment systems <br /> other than conventional septic tank systems. Environmental <br />