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DRAFT -9- Bob Hornik: Chad, can you tell us about existing vegetation on the property, how much will remain and how much will be cleared? Chad Abbott: The only portions cleared are at the building location in the fenced area, about 20 % -30% vegetation and around the edges of the pond. Of course we have the buffers that are required around the perimeter. The layout has been done to maintain the largest portion of vegetation between the road and the site to protect the adjoining residents. Bob Hornik: What is the distance between the kennel building itself and Millhouse Road? Michael Harvey: 423 feet according to the site plan. Chad- Abbott: The animal waste treatment; once the kennels are washed down or the other drains are washed down that are used to house and use animals will flow to a pretreatment system like you would use where there is no perkable soils. There will be a holding tank, a septic tank just like you have in a conventional system where the septic tank will have a wall that will keep solids and liquids from spillover. It will be pumped to a sand bed to filter out the fine particles which are called suspended solids and allow some bacterial processes to take place through the sand. That is called the pretreatment. That is an example of a sand filter from a residential project I did. That was about 12x12 for 480 gallons per day so one for a kennel might be 24x24 or a couple of 12x12s together to allow the same surface area because it is all surface area driven based on gallons per day so you can imagine two of those at the top, two of those beside each other would be enough to treat from the actual dog operation and that is for a whole 900 gallons and the whole 900 gallons will not go to this system. If you would take two of those, that would treat everything, however, there are bathrooms for normal uses that would go straight to a septic field just as it does at your house. Everything for the pets will go here and filter out any solids that get through the septic tank and allow some of those processes to take place as it goes through the sand. Then it goes through a disinfection, fluorination or UV chamber to disinfect it so that when it leaves this system, often times in residential cases, like this, you can discharge it into a creek or ditch because it has been treated to that satisfaction of the State. When the water leaves this system, it will get additional treatment because it will not be released into a ditch. In some places you spray, you drip but because you have perkable soil, the State would rather you treat it through the soil so this treated water will be pumped to the septic field they use to treat. That whole field has been sized for the 900 gallons per day so this water will definitely be treated from the dog kennels using this pretreatment and disinfection system and then be dispersed to the ground rather than sprayed or dripped. That is how the septic will work on this site. I know there may be questions relating to the quality of the water from this facility. The grading, Stormwater and Erosion Control Issues, the county parkland here has a drainage running way back into the county property. The drainage area is pretty deep so the storm water coming to this point and that gray hatched area by Millhouse Road is a wet pond area. I am not sure if the pipe that was put in by DOT was undersized or if it was put in at a bad invert but it is just a wet pond area you can see in some pictures later. This may just be a seasonal issue but that is approximately the area that stays wet and that, the pond and any conveyances on the property has been cleared by Orange County Stormwater. There are not any wetlands, jurisdictional streams, etc. That wet area is there and there is a lot of water coming into that point. As I was talking about grading and stormwater erosion control, when we grade the site, we will maintain it at the existing drainage, to the greatest extent possible to put it on the highest point on the site we can so that uphill drainage is achieved across the site and we will catch our drainage and treat our drainage as required by the county ordinance. On the board, we have these areas coming from the county parkland. There is already, during large rain events, areas where it scours the leaf and off the ground. This was back in March when I took these pictures. These areas are in bare areas where the water rushes through and has already displaced the vegetation or leaf cover and OC Board of Adjustment — 5/14/2012 Page 9 of 41