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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: February 21, 2006 Action Agenda Item No. ~_ SUBJECT: Confirmation of Plans for Use of Well and Septic for Solid Waste Operations Center DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Resolution John Link, (919) 245-2300 PURPOSE: To adopt a resolution indicating the intent of the Board of Commissioners to construct the new Solid Waste Operations Center on Eubanks Road using a well and a septic system, rather than pursuing water and sewer connections to the Orange Water and Sewer Authority systems, BACKGROUND: In May 2005, the Board of Commissioners approved a resolution of intent to consider the use of OWASA water and sewer connections in providing utilities to the new Solid Waste Operations Center, The property an which the new facility will be built is just inside the Rural Buffer, which has attendant restrictions on the extension of water and sewer lines. In keeping with the spirit of the Water and Sewer Management, Planning, and Boundary Agreement between the County and its municipal and utility partners, the Board of Commissioners transmitted copies of that resolution to each governing board to solicit their comments about the Commissioners' proposed course of action. During the September 2005 Assembly of Governments meeting, representatives of the Carrboro Board of Aldermen and Chapel Hill Town Council expressed a variety of concerns about the prospects for running utilities to the property and into the Rural Buffer, and particularly with a route that would take sewer across the northern portion of the active landfill on the south side of Eubanks Road. Since the Assembly of Governments discussion, the County has been able to acquire an additional 6+ acres of land immediately adjacent to the 4 acre parcel on which the Operations Center is to be built, By recombining those two adjacent parcels, the County will have considerably more flexibility to design an appropriate, safely accessible facility that uses well and septic rather than OWASA utility connections. The County's architects are proceeding with a design that uses well and septic for permanent operations. FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no financial impact associated directly with the adoption of this resolution. Funds to design and construct the Solid Waste Operations Center, to include well and septic, will come from the Solid Waste/Landfill Operations Enterprise Fund. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board adopt the accompanying resolution.