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Ell served by the Phase I sewer to commit to tapping onto the system. The County agreed to provide those citizen who signed for sewer service with sewer service at no charge for tapping fees. The County agreed to pay those tapping fees and did in fact prepay the tapping fees for 212 sewer customers to the Town of Hillsborough. The agreement also stated specifically that sewer system might not be constructed if commitments for at least 179 taps in Phase I, as defined by the sewer system phasing map contained in the MacAdams report, were not obtained. During the sign -up period for customers and taps, which ended on January 31, 1985, 191 taps were requested by 137'customers who consisted of individuals, companies,- churches, clubs and one voluntary fire department. The County decided to build at least a portion of the Phase I section of sewer system, even though there were not 179 taps requested in the entire area designated as Phase I,. Of the total of 191 taps requested, nineteen taps requested by eleven of the customers were in the areas originally designated as Phases ii, IV or V. Most of these customers who were not located in Phase I would have been able to tap into the proposed Phase I gravity sewers or force mains by using individual sewer pumping stations located at each customer's building or home. At least partially because of the MacAdams report's proposed use of many sewer pumping stations. the County chose Hazen and Sawyer to restudy the Efland area sewer situation and make new recommendations. The Hazen and Sawyer study of the area made a number of modifications to both the sewer layout and the phasing limits recommended in the MacAdams report. The new study also set up the sewer design whereby Phase I could be divided into two sections which could be constructed separately. Hazen and Sawyer was awarded the contract to design and oversee the construction of as much of the sewer project as funding would allow. In 1987 construction began on the portion of Phase I west of Efland_ -Cedar Grove Road. The scope of project was limited due to the cost of the project and the lack of available funding. The p-ortion of Phase I that was constructed was targeted particularly because it contained the highest concentration of failed septic tanks, the failing treatment system at the school and the greatest number of low income and elderly households. These factors were very important with regard to the availability of grant funding for construction of the project. On the attached map. the area served by the sewer which was constructed is shaded in red. The area that was sewered was projected to serve ninety -two of the original customers who had requested one hundred and eleven taps. By the time sewer construction was completed in late 1988, two taps had been omitted because one customer had died and his house abandoned and one could not be served with gravity sewer. M