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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: February 9, 2006 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. _ ~~ <br />SUBJECT: Town of Hillsborough Request for Cates Creek Outfall Sewer Easement Across <br />County Property <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager <br />Purchasing/Central Services <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Town of Hillsborough Letter Requesting <br />Easement <br />Survey Map of Overall Cates Creek <br />Ouffall Sewer Easement Area <br />Aerial Photo of County-awned Builder's <br />First <br />Draft Deed of Easement <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Paul Thames, 919-245-2303 <br />Pam Janes, 245-2650 <br />PURPOSE: To consider a Town of Hillsborough request that the County grant a sewer <br />easement across County-owned property for the purpose of installing a gravity sewer main that <br />will be the primary means of extending sewer service to the Waterstone development,. <br />BACKGROUND: Orange County currently owns a property at the western end of Valley Forge <br />Road in southern Hillsborough. The property purchase and the construction of building(s) on <br />the property was originally funded by aCounty-sponsored Industrial Bond. A condition of the <br />bond was that the County would receive ownership of the property and facilities after a period of <br />twenty years. The County took over ownership of the property several years ago and since has <br />leased the facility. Currently the facility is leased by Builder's First Source, a wholesale dealer <br />of building materials (lumber, millwork, etc.). <br />Currently, Town of Hillsborough sewer utilities (extended to serve the Wildwood and Heritage <br />Hills subdivision) are located along the east side of the property and under I-85 (the southern <br />boundary of the property), The Town now proposes to extend a sewer line across the southern <br />end of the County property to a point under the Norfolk-Southern Railroad lines (western <br />boundary of the County property), then south along the railroad under I-85 and ultimately to the <br />Waterstone development.. <br />There is some urgency for the construction of this sewer extension to get underway. This <br />extension will provide for sewer service to the Durham Tech campus in Waterstone, service that <br />is scheduled to be in place by August 2006. Construction on the sewer extension is scheduled <br />to commence in March 2006, As of this date, Town engineering staff have indicated that all but <br />a few of the thirty (approximate) necessary easements are in hand. Furthermore, at the next <br />meeting of the Hillsborough Town Board, staff will be asking the Board to pass a resolution <br />