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1 <br />O R A N G E C 0 U N T Y <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 7, 1991 <br />SUBJECT: Efland Sewer System <br />Action Agenda <br />Item # VIC-B <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: Yes _X ___N0 <br />ATTACHMENT(S): Report <br />Under seperate cover: <br />2 maps <br />blank sewer service contract <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Thames, <br />County Engineer <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough - 732 -8181 <br />Durham - 688 -7331 <br />Mebane - 227 -2031 <br />Chapel Hill - 967 - 9251/968 -4501 <br />PURPOSE: To provide information to the Board on the current operational <br />situation of the Efland Sewer system and to provide several <br />scenarios for the construction and financing of expansions to <br />the system. <br />BACKGROUND: The Efland sewer system has now been in operation for <br />approximately three years. During those three years, a <br />number of problems have arisen in terms of general customer <br />dissatisfaction and in terms of the system's failure to <br />generate sufficient revenue to meet expenses. <br />Presently, a new challenge has appeared in regard to the <br />provision of sewer service to the Efland area. In 1985, a <br />number of Efland citizens signed agreements requesting that <br />the County provide sewer service and agreeing to tap onto <br />the sewer service whenever that service became available. <br />This agreement set the condition that a minimum of 179 <br />citizens. residing in the area designated as Phase I by the <br />Efland area sewer study, must have applied for sewer <br />service by a specified deadline before the County would <br />construct the sewer system. Only a portion of the sewer <br />system for Phase I was constructed, serving 107 of the <br />customers who originally entered into the sewer service <br />agreement with the County. Now many of those citizens who <br />had officially requested sewer service but who were not <br />served in the original construction project are asking the <br />County to provide the sewer service in the immediate <br />future. In addition. some citizens who currently have. <br />sewer service available but are unable to pay plumbing <br />contractors to tie their houses into the existing system <br />have requested County financial assistance to enable them <br />to tie onto the system. <br />