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PAGE 5 <br /> tank/nitrification field systems. The existing plans calls for eleven (11) mobile <br /> homes to discharge into the new treatment system. Mr. Harden who is trying to <br /> purchase the mobile home park indicated he would be willing to hook up all the <br /> trailers to the new system to insure maximum treatment of the waste. Mr. Harden <br /> informed Mr. Thames that an application was submitted this afternoon for a revised SOC <br /> and for a revised MPDES permit to discharge the waste to Stoney Creek and to allow <br /> them to increase the waste loading to pick up every existing and potential trailer on <br /> this lot. In all likelihood, the actual changing of the discharge point may not occur <br /> until late summer or early fall. <br /> Health Director Dan Reimer reported that the screening tests done by the State <br /> Lab did show significantly high levels of human chloroform that would constitute a <br /> public health nuisance. Mr. Reimer stated that his responsibility in such a finding <br /> would be to consider what appropriate action is necessary. The State Assistant Health <br /> Director reviewed the findings and stated that the issuing of an abatement order was a <br /> possibility although the trend in the state is to use that strategy as an intervention <br /> in those cases where the owner has either resisted resolving the problem or there is <br /> no solution apparent and action needs to be taken. In this case the present owner and <br /> the possible new owner have taken action that has been ordered by DEM and it does not <br /> appear that issuing an abatement order at this time would move anything along any <br /> faster. However, if anything in the system of steps being taken break down, the <br /> grounds are there for issuing an abatement order. <br /> John Link informed the Board that the administration will keep them <br /> informed on the progress of the installation of the new system. <br /> Motion was made by Commissioner Halkiotis, seconded by Commissioner <br /> Hartwell to approve the resolution as stated below. This will be presented <br /> at the public hearing to be held next week by DEM on Carden's Mobile Home Park. <br /> R E S O L U T I O N <br /> A resolution from the Orange County Commissioners to the North Carolina <br /> Division of Environmental Management regarding the relocation of the point of <br /> discharge from the waste treatment facility serving Carden's Mobile Home Park. <br /> WHEREAS: A substandard waste treatment facility serving Carden's Mobile Home Park <br /> has been discharging untreated sewage to a roadside storm drainage ditch on <br /> Hwy 70 for nearly twenty years; and <br /> WHEREAS: Said untreated sewage has been flowing across and ponding on the property <br /> of one Talmage Stephenson for nearly twenty years; and <br /> WHEREAS: Mr. Stephenson and other area residents have been attempting without <br /> success to have said untreated sewage flow abated or diverted for nearly <br /> twenty years; and <br /> WHEREAS: The division of Environmental Management has scheduled a public hearing for <br /> the purpose of receiving public comment on a Special Order by Consent under <br /> which a new waste treatment facility at Carden's Mobile Home Park will <br /> operate and discharge; <br /> Be it resolved that the Board of County Commissioners most urgently request that the <br /> Division of Environment Management direct Carden's Mobile Home Park to cease <br /> discharging waste treatment effluent to its present point of discharge and to pipe the <br /> waste treatment effluent along the Hwy 70 right-of-way to Stoney Creek or to stop <br /> discharging effluent and install a non-discharging system. <br /> VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br />