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MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH <br />February 24, 2010 <br />Board of Health Minutes Transcription completed by Anne Miles Cassell 4 February 24, 2010 <br />County Health Department when that is necessary was seconded by Christopher Cooke, and carried <br />without dissent. <br /> <br />Rosemary Summers introduced new staff member, Jamie Land. <br /> <br />III. Public Comment for Items NOT on Printed Agenda <br /> <br />None <br /> <br />IV. Action Items and Reports <br /> <br />A. Minutes approval of January 27, 2010 meeting. <br /> <br />Minutes of the previous regularly scheduled Board of Health meeting were provided for <br />review and approval. <br /> <br />Motion to approve the minutes of January 27, 2010 Board of Health meeting was made by <br />Chris Harlan, seconded by Tony Whitaker, and carried without dissent. <br /> <br />B. Rogers Road Water and Septic Survey Results <br /> <br />In June of 2009, Orange County was interested in pursuing an application for <br />Community Development Block Grant funding from the State of North Carolina for <br />water and sewer infrastructure improvements to the Rogers Road neighborhood. The <br />Orange County Health Department was asked to provide a statement of need based <br />on widespread septic system failures in this area. A statement was prepared, but it <br />lacked information that could only be provided by conducting an onsite survey of <br />septic system performance and failure rates. UNC had earlier conducted a <br />collaborative investigation of water quality; however, those results were not available <br />for consideration because of confidentiality promises made to residents and the <br />Institutional Review Board. <br /> <br />Tom Konsler reported that staff met several times in 2009 with community <br />representatives, the UNC Student Chapter of Engineers without Borders, UNC <br />Epidemiology faculty, and others to explore the neighborhood’s concerns and seek out <br />remedies. In October of 2009, Minister Robert Campbell submitted a request to the <br />Health Director to conduct a survey of the area to document well and septic system <br />failures. In November the Board of County Commissioners approved funding to pay for <br />water sampling costs for the survey. Staff subsequently received approval for <br />reimbursement of the sampling costs to be paid by the state’s Bernard Allen Memorial <br />Emergency Drinking Water Fund. <br /> <br />Tom Konsler briefly presented PowerPoint slides and a preliminary report showing the <br />results of the well and septic system survey which was conducted during the first two <br />weeks of 2010. A total of 45 homes participated in the survey and another 25 were <br />unable to be reached. Of those contacted all were served by septic system and 11 <br />were served by well water. Out of the 11 wells tested only one well met all of the EPA <br />recommend limits across all of the bacterial and chemical parameters tested. Testing <br />revealed that 10 of the 11 well water supplies exceeded one or more water quality