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BOARD OF ALDERMEN AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT MEETING DATE: September 06, 2005 ITEM NO. >~ TITLE: Orange County Solid Waste Operations Center-Sewer Extension DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC' HEARING: YES-NO X ATTACHMENTS: FOR INFORMATION A. Resolution CONTACT: B. August 10, 2005 Request from Orange Roy Williford, 918-7325 County C. Joint Planning Agreement D. Water and Sewer bounda A reement PURPOSE The purpose of this item is for the Carrboro Board of Aldermen to review a request from Orange County for OWASA to extend both water and sewer into the rural buffer to service the new Solid Waste Management Operations Center. Orange County is formally requesting feedback from the Board of Aldermen on their plans to extend water and sewer into the rural buffer to service an "essential public facility", INFORMATION According to an August 10, 2005 letter (Attachment-B) from Moses Carey, chair of the Orange County Board of Commissioners, the existing Solid Waste Management Department's administrative offices must be relocated from the Horace Williams tract to anew location by the end of 2006. The new location chosen by Orange County is on county owned property next to and west of the active mixed solid waste landfill on the south side of Eubanks Road (see map provided with Attachment B). According to a resolution attached to the county's request, the new operations center will need both water and sewer service from OWASA since the center will include a community meeting room educational facility that may generate up to 75 visitors/occupants at any one time creating a waste water treatment demand beyond the capacity of the septic system approved by the Health Division for a typical 6,000 square foot office use. The new sewer line alignment shown on the accompanying map proposes a connection to an existing sewer line north of Eubanks Road and east of Mill House Road in Chapel Hill's transition area. The proposed sewer line then extends west under Mill Hotise Road and the railroad for about 400 feet, then south to the south side of Eubanks Road. The sewer then extends west approximately 2,900 feet along the south side of'Eubanks Road and along the landfill's road frontage to the proposed solid waste operations center site located adjacent to Chapel Hill's Transition Area but within the Rural Buffer. Another sewer alternative may be possible that connects the proposed operations center site from the south going under Rogers Road to connect with the Bolin Creek sewer outfall. This