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<br />some distance if we need to and also at some elevation if we need to. This collection system now is also small-1168
<br />diameter pipe, so it's very unobtrusive in terms of how we put in the collection. We're able to follow the contour, 1169
<br />follow the roads. And John and I actually had gone through the development, and we had located where we would 1170
<br />put several of these STEP tanks to serve maybe a row of houses, one of the care facilities that Ed was just talking 1171
<br />about or larger versions of that same style tank to serve each of the multi-family units. In the end, we can bring those 1172
<br />lines together, and that was another detail that's there. It's called a STEP connection detail, and think about it almost 1173
<br />like a reverse water system. So, everybody's house that's on a community or municipal water system, that main 1174
<br />water line comes down through the road, and then we all have our water taps that feed into our individual house. 1175
<br />That's how they charge us, right? They go look at that meter. This is almost the same idea in the reverse. And so, 1176
<br />we have the STEP tank at the house, small-diameter line that goes to a STEP connection system, which is a back 1177
<br />flow, some ball valves, and now we have a common line. Again, generally, it's small-diameter, 2-, 3-inch-diameter, 1178
<br />generally not any larger than that. And we take that line, we bring it together and then we bring it over to our 1179
<br />treatment system. You referenced, ma'am, a MBR system, Membrane Bioreactor. Well, we're using on this, or 1180
<br />proposing, it's called a recirculating media filter. The actual product is called AdvanTex. I started designing with 1181
<br />AdvanTex back in, I think, 2006, 2007, somewhere in that ballpark. It has been permitted in North Carolina for use 1182
<br />since early 2000, about 2001. The AdvanTex technology is developed and manufactured by a company called 1183
<br />Orenco Systems that is out in the west coast, in Oregon. It's a very strong company. They're international. They've 1184
<br />got projects all over the place. Very, very large number of them are in North Carolina. We've worked with hundreds 1185
<br />of them in North Carolina. There's many of them, the same technology, in Orange County. We have designed, 1186
<br />permitted, helped to install, certified, we operate several systems with this same technology throughout Orange 1187
<br />County, throughout North Carolina, and we've even done some work in Virginia. But the technology is proven. It's a 1188
<br />great system for residential style waste, and it very, very much allows, when you have the ebbs and flows that come 1189
<br />with domestic waste products, houses, this type of system works very well with that. And part of the application is 1190
<br />actually a report that we had done several years ago, where we actually went in - and I will admit, I'm sometimes 1191
<br />skeptical of - I get sales people come to my office and say, Kevin, we see you do a lot of waste water work; we'd like 1192
<br />you to design with our system. And so, one of my first questions is, well, let me see your data. Is your system going 1193
<br />to work? Oh, yes, we have all this data from Utah, California. We have data from North Carolina, stuff that we have 1194
<br />operated that I have installed ourself. It's a recirculating media filter. It's an entirely different technology than an 1195
<br />MBR. 1196
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<br />Marilyn Carter: Thank you, Mr. Davidson. I just wanted to understand if it was different from an MBR and that 1198
<br />doesn't mean MBRs, or the membrane bioreactors are bad. It just means that there are certain considerations that 1199
<br />we've all heard about in the public about the concerns about those kinds of systems in neighborhoods like Briar 1200
<br />Chapel and others that did not apply here. Is that correct? 1201
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<br />Kevin Davidson: We are not using that system here. My colleague, Chris, knows even more about that system 1203
<br />than I do. 1204
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<br />Marilyn Carter: All right. Thank you for that clarification, and I have another question, but I'm going to pass on 1206
<br />because I suspect my other question might get asked by someone else. Thank you, Mr. Chair, thank you. 1207
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<br />Steven Kaufmann: I'm going to pass. 1209
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<br />Lamar Proctor: Okay, I think it would be helpful if you could go back from my questions to the land-use pods 1211
<br />slide. I thought that was a very helpful diagram of proposed uses. If we can find it. 1212
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<br />Scott Radway: There we go. 1214
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<br />Lamar Proctor: So, my question in the center area where it's not designated that just says land-use pods. 1216
<br />What's the intention on that area of the property? 1217
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