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B. Sewer Service History Orange County has historically planned for specific areas of the US 70/ Efland/I-85/40 corridor to be provided with wastewater collection service to address both public health and economic development concerns. To that end, in the County contracted with a consulting engineer to develop a master plan -which was completed in 1984 - for a wastewater collection system to serve the area. This master plan, which outlined a phased development wastewater collection system serving almost the entire area along Hwy 70 from the Eno River to Buckhorn Road (including areas between I-85 and Norfolk-Southern Railroad and the Perry Hills subdivision) was never accepted or adopted by the BOCC. However the Board did contract with a second consulting engineer to modify a portion of the master plan which was limited to the area along Hwy 70 bounded on the east by Lloyd Dairy Road (SR 1327) and on the west by Redmon Road (SR 1311). Ultimately the second engineering firm was retained to develop construction plans, bid a wastewater collection system construction project and oversee actual construction for a core collection system that served roughly the area along US 70 from Redman Road (SR 1311) to Efland/Cedar Grove Road (SR 1004). The area between Eland Cedar Grove Road and Lloyd Dairy Road was not constructed due to an insufficiency in available funding. That system that was constructed has by now provided reliable wastewater collection service to the community for some 15 years. During the last several years, the system has been expanded slightly at the expense of the respective developers (Richmond Hills and Ashwick subdivisions) to ultimately provide service to approximately 100 additional households. C. Economic Development District In 1994 and 1996, the BOCC approved the creation of the Buckhorn Road Economic Development District to its current configuration, approximately 900 acres along the north and south sides of I-85/40 east of Buckhorn Road. This area was also designated as suitable for water and wastewater utility service. The area has not yet been served with either water distribution or wastewater collection. Soon after the creation of the Buckhorn Road EDD, the City of Mebane began a process of annexing the property at the southwest quadrant of the Buckhorn Road/I-85/40 interchange, approving the development of the property as a PetroMart truckstop facility and allowing the extension of water and wastewater utilities to serve the site. During the same time period, residents along Buckhorn Road began formed a "neighborhood association", the People for Progress, to lobby both the City of Mebane and Orange County to extend wastewater collection services to the areas on Buckhorn Road on both sides of I-85/40 and to extend municipal water service to the area along Buckhorn Road on the south side of 1- 85/40. D. 1997 Efland Sewer Bond In 1997, the BOCC adopted the recommendations of the Capital Needs Advisory Task Force which included a component addressing the failing septic tank/public health situation in central Efland. The Board approved a bond order providing for a referendum on a proposal fora $1.2 million bond that would fund the expansion of the existing/core Efland wastewater collection system to serve that portion of Efland (the area along US 70 between Efland/Cedar Grove Road and Lloyd Dairy Road) that was included in the BOCC approved master plan but which could not be built in 1987-88. The Efland Sewer Bond was approved by the voters of Orange County, but the actual project to be funded by the bond has not yet received BOCC approval.