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O R A N G E C O U N T Y <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 19, 1991 <br />Action Agenda <br />.Item # - V=-c <br />SUBJECT: Duke Forest Mobile Home <br />Park sewer force main <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager r PUBLIC HEARING: Yes _X —No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): Report INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Paul Thames, 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 respond to the petition of the owners of Duke Forest Mobile <br />Park for Orange County to agree to take over ownership of a <br />sewer force main so that NCDOT will allow the force main to be <br />installed within the highway right -of -ways of US 70 and <br />Old NC 10. <br />BACKGROUND: Duke Forest Mobile Home Park. formerly Dixie Mobile Home <br />Park, is located in the triangular piece of land between <br />US 70 and Old NC 10. just west of the intersection of US 70 <br />and NC 751 on the far eastern border of central Orange <br />County. The park is served by an existing waste treatment <br />system consisting of septic tanks and sand filter which <br />discharge to a very low flow stream which eventually runs <br />into the Eno River approximately 4000 feet west of the <br />Durham County line. The NC Division of Environmental <br />Management (DEM) has required the mobile home park to <br />replace its existing sewage treatment system which is <br />currently operating in violation of its permitting limits <br />and discharging a very low quality effluent into its <br />receiving stream. The park owners have selected a <br />consulting engineering firm. Duane K. Stewart & Associates. <br />Inc.. to design a new treatment system and to represent <br />them in dealings with DEM and other governmental agencies. <br />The engineers have determined, in consultation with DEM. <br />that the most environmentally sound solution to the waste <br />treatment problem at the mobile home park is to replace the <br />existing treatment system with a sewage pumping station and <br />force main. When the proposed system is installed, sewage <br />from the park would be pumped to a nearby segment of the <br />City of Durham's sewage collection network. There is a <br />problem with this approach. however, in that the force <br />