Item 8-g - Efland Sewer System - Transfer of Ownership to City of Mebane

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1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: December 3, 2018 Action Agenda Item No. 8-g SUBJECT: Efland Sewer System - Transfer of Ownership to City of Mebane DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections, County Manager's Office and County Attorney's Office ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: 1. Sewer Utility Dedication Form Craig Benedict, Planning Director, 2. Efland Sewer System Summary 919-245-2592 3. Map Attachments 3.1 through 3.4 Bonnie Hammersley, County Manager, 4. Orange County / City of Mebane Utility (919) 245-2300 Service Agreement Exhibit Howard Fleming, Jr., Erosion Control/ Stormwater/Engineering Supervisor, 919-245-2586 James Bryan, Staff Attorney, 919-245-2319 PURPOSE: To transfer ownership of the Efland Sewer utility infrastructure to the City of Mebane. BACKGROUND: The County has a Utility Service Agreement (signed in 2004 and amended in 2012) with the City of Mebane for provision of water and sewer utility service in the area east of the City of Mebane between Bowman & West Ten Road and the Highway 70 corridor, easterly to Efland (see Attachment 4). In the agreement, Orange County agrees to turn over ownership and operation of any utility infrastructure built in the agreement's designated service area to the City of Mebane. In this sense, the County is acting as a developer of this designated growth area, building a framework of sewer infrastructure from which future development can grow. The Efland Sewer to Mebane, Phase 2 Extension infrastructure improvements are substantially complete and ready to place into service. The project was funded primarily by Article 46 sales tax revenue. These most recent improvements are primarily intended to switch the sewage flow from treatment by the Town of Hillsborough (since 1988) to ownership, maintenance and sewage treatment by the City of Mebane. In addition to being a "connection" to the existing Efland- Cheeks Collection System serving approximately 325 customers, this most recent project adds 1.6 miles of gravity sewer that will provide an additional backbone of sewer infrastructure for an area that has been designated for economic development for many years, but which had no utility infrastructure readily available. A summary of the sewer system is listed on Attachment 2, and a map of the total infrastructure to be transferred is shown on Attachments 3.1 through 3.4. The next step is to transfer ownership to the City of Mebane.