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3 <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: County Commissioners <br />John Link, County Manager <br />Geoff Gledhill, County Attorney <br />FROM: Paul Thames. County Engineer <br />DATE: October 28, 1991 <br />SUBJECT: Request for County involvement in Duke Forest <br />Mobile Home Park force main project <br />As you will recall, representatives from Duane K. Stewart & <br />Associates. Inc., engineers for the owners of the above <br />referenced property, appeared before the BOCC at,the regular <br />Board meeting in Hillsborough on October 7, 1991. The <br />engineers requested that the County agree to take over <br />ownership of a sewer force main which they propose to <br />install between Duke Forest Mobile Home Park, which lies <br />between Hwy 70 and Old NC 10 approximately 1000 feet west <br />of the intersection of US 70 and NC 751. and end of the City <br />of Durham's existing sewer system. which lies approximately <br />two hundred feet east of the intersection of US 70 and <br />NC 751. The force main will cross under Old NC 10 in front <br />of the mobile home park. run east within the southern right - <br />of -way of Old NC 10 and US 70, cross under NC 751 and tie <br />into Durham's system in the south side of the US 70 right -of <br />way. NCDOT does not allow private ownership of utility lines <br />within the roadway right -of -ways, at least in the Highway <br />Division that includes Orange County. All utility lines must <br />be owned by a public utility, such as Duke Power, or by a <br />unit of local government, such as Orange County. The City of <br />Durham has already refused to accept ownership or maintenance <br />responsibility for the proposed force main. <br />The background on the mobile home park is similar to any <br />number of mobile home parks within Orange County and within <br />the state. The existing treatment system consists of septic <br />tanks, sand filters and a discharge to a zero flow receiving <br />stream. The system is currently operating in violation of <br />its permitted limitations and the park owners are under <br />formal order by the NC Division of Environmental Management <br />(DEM) to rectify the situation. The current plan is to <br />provide a pumping station at the park to pump waste to the <br />City of Durham's collection system. <br />