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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> December 3, 2009 <br /> Approved January 11, 2010 <br /> Pollock asks if the basis of the 3000 ft. boundary is known . <br /> Yuhasz replies that is when the [University Lake] quarry no-fault well plan was put in <br /> place; from that, it was carried over . That is the only reason . <br /> Pollock asks if there were a problem found in some of the wells are the remedies <br /> going to be absolutely tied to the notion of the well repair or would the remedy more <br /> likely be hooking people to the waterline . <br /> Yuhasz state that it is going to be which ever is most economical . If it turns out that <br /> the attachment to the OWASA water system is more economical in the long run then <br /> that will be chosen . <br /> Bowerman asks if a household' s septic system [is failing] , is sewer considered part of <br /> this also . Or do you decide, once they have water, even if their septic is failing it <br /> doesn' t matter anymore ? <br /> Yuhasz replies that there is a task force that is in place now that is looking at potential <br /> funding mechanisms for extension of sewer services for the Rogers Road <br /> neighborhood . We met and had a brief discussion about that. There is a handful of <br /> lots that can be served either immediately or with a small extension of the existing <br /> sewer system . There is not much possibility of any kind of extension of the sewer <br /> system to a large area of that Rogers Road community until there is some injection of <br /> funds by a third party, a developer or something along those lines . Part of what is <br /> happening with this study there is the Engineers Without Borders which is an <br /> organization that works with different community groups and they are part of this <br /> study . One of the concerns in starting this was that once failing septic systems are <br /> identified you can' t ignore them . You have to do something about that. The <br /> Engineers Without Borders is the organization that we are expecting/ hoping will take <br /> the lead in doing something about that. I' m not sure how it will work out but I do <br /> know there are tentative plans to deal with the potential failing septic systems in some <br /> way that is satisfactory both to the Health Department and the people who live there . <br /> Vickers states that it may be difficult because North Carolina is very restrictive on <br /> individual waste systems . There are things that you can do elsewhere that you can t <br /> do here . <br /> Yuhasz states that there are more things that you can do here than people would <br /> normally think . A lot of those things are expensive . That is where we get into the <br /> question of how do you fund those kinds of remedies also if that is what is required . <br /> That is going to be the more difficult part of this study . <br /> 19 <br />