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eliminated from this count as not being a part of the community. One additional property - the Nunn property (parcel 119) - was eliminated from the water main extension project as it was too remote from the rest of the Rogers Road community (separated by large tracts of landfill property) to be reasonably provided with water service. The remaining 113 properties can be separated into 35, parcels which contain no structures at all and 78 parcels which contain one church, 73 occupied dwellings, 22 uninhabited dwellings and seven non-residential structures such as shops. Eleven of the occupied parcels contain more than one structure. Nineteen households declined to participate in the 1998 survey and furnished no information related to condition of household plumbing, water quality problems, number of individuals in a household or their ages, household income, or even the name of the head of the household. However, the survey did provide a count of approximately 123 residents in 50 households. Of these, 105 individuals could be categorized as being within law/moderate income households (according to 1998 HUD criteria for Orange County). Twenty-two of the individuals that were counted were at least 60 years old and 26 were less than 15 years old. The current estimate for construction of the Rogers Road water main system is approximately $550,000. It 'is estimated that OWASA availability fees for all of the existing homes (including those not occupied in 1998) in the Rogers Road community would approach $100,000. There are no reliable estimates at this time for the potential costs of connecting all homes in the community to the water meters or for improving plumbing in those homes which may need such work. However, it is reasonable to expect that connecting all homes in the community to the meters could approach or even exceed $100,000 and that another $100,000 would be necessary to make all necessary improvements to individual plumbing systems. If the refusal of residents to participate in the original field survey could be construed to mean that those households do not want or intend to receive municipal water service, it is possible that no costs associated with availability fees or plumbing will be incurred for nineteen or more households. This would represent a cost reduction of approximately S60,000 from the $300,000 total of availability fee and plumbing costs cited above. PURCHASE OF UTILITY EASEMENTS The Rogers Road project involves the acquisition of approximately four acres of easement outside of existing public rights-of-way or easements and across private property. The estimated cost of these easements, if purchased, totals approximately $30,000. This cost was included in the $550,000, preliminary project cost estimate. As most of the project costs will be publicly funded, neither the County nor OWASA will have any leverage (such as a reduction in assessment charges), other than the good will of property owners, to use to acquire free or lowered cost easements. As construction of any particular water main segment crossing private land cannot be undertaken until the necessary easements are acquired, acquisition of these easements should commence very shortly. Accordingly, the BOCC. must authorize OWASA to begin negotiating easement acquisitions and purchase prices as soon as practicable.