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~~ 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 aze located along US 70 beyond eastern reach of the gravity collectar system that would be constructed as the bond project. The properties of two ofthese customers lie outside of the Transition Area and in the Eno River watershed critical area. There aze several more potential customers (those who did not sign for sewer service in 1985) along US 70, Gym Road and Lloyd Dairy Raad who aze also beyond the eastern reach of the proposed bond financed collector system and who are also in within the Eno River/Seven Mile Creek watershed critical areas. Extending sewer service to those few potential customers (existing residents/homes) beyond the eastern end of the bond referendum defined service area will involve penetrating the watershed critical areas as currently defined and would probably be accomplished by one of two potential sewer design strategies: _ _at~llite gravity/pump station system subs stem consisting of _. .. a s y - ~ .*:_,.~.siaagle pumping st_?*ion located At or-near the US 70 Eno River Grossing ^ collector lines draining the pumping station ^ a farce main routed from the pump station back to the central gravity collectar system; or 2) a satellite STEP-type subsystem consisting of; ^ small low pressure force main collectors discharging to the central gravity collector system ^ low capacity pumping stations located on-site for each customer Efland Sewer Bond Proiect Issues/Concerns 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 ofthe 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 199.8 and are currently being addressed by the BOCC and staff, include: ~ .. . ^ joint planning process with Mebane ^ Efland orEfland-Cheeks small area 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 may be 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 azeas 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 financing 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 azea could commence this spring.