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Efland Sewer Bond Pro'ect The sewer system infrastructure, as proposed in the 1997 bond campaign, can provide gravity sewer service to all potential customers within the bond-defined service area (see the attached map). It is estimated that the entire consultant solicitation, design, permitting, bidding, construction and project close-out process will take approximately 28 months to complete (approximately 6 yeazs after the passage of the bond, if the project is initiated very shortly). Expanding sewer service to the area defined in the 1997 bond will make sewer service available to all but 10 individuals who sighed up for sewer service during the initial drive to solicit customers in 1985. Six of those individuals are located along US 70 beyond the western reach of the existing system. The remaining four customers are located along US 70 beyond eastern reach of the gravity collector system that would be constructed as the bond project. The properties of two of these customers lie outside of the Transition Area and in the Eno River watershed critical azea. There are several more potential customers (those who did not sign far sewer service in 1985) along US 70, Gym Road and Lloyd Dairy Road who are also beyond the eastern reach of the proposed bond financed collector system and who aze also in within the Eno River/Seven Mile Creek watershed critical areas. Although the Efland Sewer Bond was passed in November 1997, the sewer expansion process (consultant selection, surveying, identification or acquisition of easements, preparation of construction documents, permitting, etc.) has not yet been initiated. This delay has occurred as a consequence of the close association between expansion of the Efland sewer system as a whole and a number of unresolved and interrelated issues associated with the development and evolution of the Efland-Cheeks community. These issues, which have been enumerated and incorporated in the Efland Sewer Goal since 1998 and are currently being addressed by the BOCC and staff, include: ^ joint planning process with Mebane ^ Efland or Efland-Cheeks small azea plan ^ Orange Alamance water shortage situation ^ developing the Buckhorn Road EDD and its utility services ^ Efland-Cheeks sewer master plan/utility service district! Transition Area(s) Another issue, albeit one that is not plainly explicated in the BOCC's current Efland Goal, is that bond financing could play a role in securing funding for additional sewer expansion beyond the bond-defined area. Specifically, it maybe possible to use bond funds to leverage grant funds that could then be used to pay some portion of the costs of expanding the sewer system to other areas of the Efland-Cheeks community. As the County's plan for the ultimate configuration of the Efland sewer system has not yet been defined, the potential for grant fmancing of sewer expansion interjects yet another element of uncertainty. However, resolution of all of these issues and concerns not withstanding, it is possible that the process of expanding the sewer system to the bond-defined area could commence this spring.