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VA Chair Carey emphasized that the Board's interest is assuring that the user permit only uses which are consistent with Orange County's Comprehensive Land Use Plan and /or any Joint Land Use Plan which may be developed and in the continued availability of that line for transmission of water. Hillsborough must determine if it will be economically feasible to purchase this line and OWASA must determine if it will be economically feasible for them to convey this line either by selling or leasing to Hillsborough. Commissioner Insko stressed that it is important for the County's appointees to take the information that is provided and make their own judgment about it. The information received does document that it is feasible for this to take place and also documents the problems that Hillsborough would have going under Churton Street and under I -85. She suggested that this information be forwarded to the OWASA Board as information the Board of Commissioners has received which OWASA may want to take into consideration in making a decision to sell or not to sell this line to the Town of Hillsborough. Chairman Carey will write a letter to OWASA reflecting the comments made at this meeting. In answer to a question from Commissioner Halkiotis, Geoffrey Gledhill stated that the remedy of eminent domain is available. Hillsborough Commissioner Bob Rose emphasized that the town would not want to do anything that would jeopardize the capability of transmittal of water from OWASA to Hillsborough or from Hillsborough to OWASA. Hillsborough is only asking the County Board of Commissioners to support their wishes to investigate the feasibility of purchasing this line. They will have an engineering plan done which must prove that the transmission of water won't be jeopardized or they won't continue with the plan to purchase this line. Ed Holland, Research and Planning Administrator with OWASA, stated that there is a joint application from the water providers in Orange County for an allocation from the Jordan Lake. This 16 -inch water line will be the best way to get that water to the Hillsborough area. B. EFLAND SEWER SYSTEM This report provided information to the Board on the current operational status of the Efland Sewer System and gave several scenarios for the constructing and financing expansions to the system. County Engineer Paul Thames used a colored map to show the six phases of the Efland Sewer system. Part of phase one has been completed. The remaining section of phase one is the section that has the highest number of people who are still interested in connecting to the sewer system. Phase two is downtown Efland and contains most of the commercial facilities in Efland. Phases two and three can be constructed independently of each other or any other section. Phase four is designed to be constructed after phase three is constructed. However, it could be redesigned so that it could be constructed alone. The construction of phase five requires that either phase two or phase one be constructed prior to its construction and phase six is depended upon the remaining section of phase one being constructed.