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<br /> 301 Delores Bailey: And is that something we're going to?
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<br /> 303 Tom Altieri: That is something that is up for discussion.
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<br /> 305 Delores Bailey: Thank you.
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<br /> 307 Charity Kirk: Tom, what was the closest one that we—what was the one that's just over in Durham
<br /> 308 County?
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<br /> 310 Tom Altieri: So, there's Hardscrabble, which is an example in Durham County, that's one that's been
<br /> 311 in operation for 20-plus years.
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<br /> 313 Delores Bailey: How many homes?
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<br /> 315 Tom Altieri: I think there's approximately 100 homes. And when Randall Arendt did come to visit and
<br /> 316 presented to the commissioners, we toured that site and he took a few pictures and felt
<br /> 317 like it was a good example. And Tony Whittaker, Board of Health, who also presented to
<br /> 318 the commissioners, thought it was a good example of a system that has been in place for
<br /> 319 a number of years and has not had any issues because it was put in the right place with
<br /> 320 the right soils, and it has been inspected regularly.
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<br /> 322 Cy Stober: Yeah, so if I can,just; the Fiddlehead corner system, similar to Hardscrabble, these are
<br /> 323 type 5 or type 6 community systems. So, what you see in that diagram is more of what
<br /> 324 might be a Type 2 or Type 3, because it's still fairly small. So, Type 5 or Type 6 include
<br /> 325 engineered pre-treatment to remove, metals and some, —oh boy, I can't—organic
<br /> 326 chemistry, it's been a long time. But you've got your hydrophobic materials that don't
<br /> 327 readily bond, or that aren't in the water, and then they also include some nitrogen cycling
<br /> 328 to get stuff to fall out of the wastewater. So, it's almost like it's a small wastewater
<br /> 329 treatment facility, but it's not a package plant. There's no direct discharge to any surface
<br /> 330 waters and there's no additional treatment after it's discharged. So, it discharges to the
<br /> 331 land, subsurface, and it soaks into the land. But to be clear, that Fiddlehead system was
<br /> 332 going to be for, originally under its design was for 150 homes, and there was going to be
<br /> 333 one system, and it would have a capacity, I think, to treat over 3,000 gallons from each. 1
<br /> 334 think it was 3,000 gallons an hour, I believe?
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<br /> 336 Venkat Yendapalli: I think they have their own community septic system, like packaged plant, I think.
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<br /> 338 Tom Altieri: Yeah.
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<br /> 340 Venkat Yendapalli: It's a big, very big community. Same thing as Farrington Village, all of them have their
<br /> 341 own plants.
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<br /> 343 Cy Stober: Yeah, and frankly, Tom did a ton of survey work looking at all these systems throughout
<br /> 344 the region, including Chatham County. We expected to find a lot more community septic
<br /> 345 systems in Chatham County, and that was not the case. Far more packaged treatment
<br /> 346 plants. So, these decentralized wastewater treatment plants that are managed by the
<br /> 347 HOA, usually they hire a contractor to manage it for them. Same with community well
<br /> 348 systems, is a third party comes in and manages that for you. And management varies.
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<br /> 350 Delores Bailey: Thank you.
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