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s 2. f Orange Water and Sewer Authority 400 Jones Ferry Road OWASA P.Q. Box 366 Carrboro, NC 27510 (919) 968 -4421 QUARTERLY REPORT TO THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS JUNE 30, 1991 Budget On June 12 the Authority adopted a FY 92 Budget with projected revenues and expenditures of just over $10 million dollars. The Board also approved a 6 percent rate increase, effective November 1, that will raise average customer bills less than $2 dollars a month. We will spend more than $3 million dollars next year on capital improvements, including the repair and rehabilitation of major water and sewer lines and the construction of limited recreational facilities at Cane Creek Reservoir. We hope to open Cane Creek for limited recreational use before closing University -Lake for improvements to the dam, scheduled to begin about a year from now. Wastewater Plant Litigation During the past month OWASA successfully resolved the patent challenge to our NUTRIFIED SLUDGE treatment process used at the wastewater plant. As I reported before, this process saves OWASA more than $400,000 a year in chemical costs, while producing very high quality effluent to Morgan Creek and enriched sludge for agricultural use. The financial settlement and royalty arrangements should allow OWASA to recover the substantial legal costs we've incurred defending the patent, and may produce additional income to be used for further research and improvements to the process, or for special purposes such as watershed preservation or Cane Creek recreation. Illegal Dumping in University Lake Watershed During the past several months, OWASA and County staff have collaborated in identifying and correcting several illegal construction dumps in the University Lake watershed. You're probably aware that one of the largest was of our own making, out at the Stone Quarry site on Highway 54. We recently completed An Equal opportunity Employer