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3~ TO: OWASA Board of Directors THROUGH: Ed Kerwin FROM: M. Imtiaz Ahmad, P. E. DATE: September 2, 2005 SUBJECT: Request from Orange County for Water and Sewer Extension to the County's new Solid Waste Operations Center in the Rural Buffer INTRODi7CTION OWASA received a letter, dated August 10, 2005, from Mr. Moses Carey, Jr, Chair of Orange County Board of Commissioners, informing us of the planned relocation of the County's Solid Waste Management Department's administrative office to a new location (Attachment A), The planned relocation will be to a new Solid Waste Operations Center on County property located west of the active solid waste landfill along Eubanks Road (Attachment B). This property is located in the Rural Buffer, outside the designated Urban Services Boundary adopted by the Towns and County, and outside of OWASA's utility service area. Mr. Carey's letter asks for feedback and comments from OWASA's Board of Directors about the County's request to extend water and sewer service to this "essential public facility." WATER AND SEWER MANAGEMENT, PLANNING AND BOUNDARY AGREEMENT In December 2001 OWASA, Orange County, and the Towns of Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro executed a Water and Sewer Mm7agement, Plannnrg and Boundary Agr°eement (Attachment C). Among other things, this document establishes utility service area boundaries beyond which each signatory agrees not to extend water and/or server service except in special cases needed to resolve an "adverse public condition" or to serve an "essential public facility," as defined in the Agreement, Beyond the "Service Area" delineations, the Agreement establishes an "Interest Area" for each entity, in which that entity is given the "right of first-refusal" to extend water/sewer service to resolve an adverse public health condition or to serve an essential public facility,