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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting November 16, 1999 <br />Date: <br />Action Agenda <br />Item <br />No. ~ -,~, <br />SUBJECT: OWASA Request for Sewer Easement on County Property <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager/Purchasing PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Sample Deed of Easement <br />Property Plat <br />County Engineer's 11/10/99 memo <br />*(under separate cover) <br />*Ortho-photo vicinity map <br />Enlarged Property Plat <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Paul Thames, ext 2303 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-.8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider a request from OWASA that the County provide an easement <br />across a tract of County-owned property in Chapel Hill for the purpose of installing a <br />sewer line. <br />BACKGROUND: Orange County currently owns, by virtue of a property tax lien, a tract <br />of land (parcel 7.42.A.17 on the attached aerial photo-map) in a residential <br />neighborhood on Markham Drive in Chapel Hill. Earlier this year, a citizen who wanted <br />to purchase-this tract requested that the BOCC declare the property to be surplus and <br />direct staff to dispose of the property by causing it to be sold at auction. The BOCC <br />declined to declare the property surplus. However, as the Town of Chapel Hill owned <br />one tract. of land behind (parcel 7.27.A.12, adjacent on the northeast) and one tract <br />beside (parcel 7.42.A.16, adjacent on the southeast and abutting Markham Drive) the <br />County's tract, Commissioners. did. agree to initiate discussion with the Town of Chapel <br />Hill about transferring ownership to the Town. The Town has since traded its tract <br />(7.42A.16) adjacent on the southeast to a private developer for another nearby tract <br />(7.42.D.1) that it needed for its greenway system. <br />Currently, a 30 foot wide sewer easement containing OWASA's existing Booker Creek <br />sanitary sewer interceptor line passes diagonally across .the southwest corner and side <br />of the County's property. OWASA, as a part of its program to eliminate sanitary sewer <br />overflows during storm events by .replacing of its problematic older sewer interceptors, <br />proposes to construct a new sanitary sewer interceptor parallel to the existing line. The <br />new sewer line, according to OWASA's plans would be laid along the eastern line of the <br />existing easement. However, as OWASA requires a 30 foot wide easement for its sewer <br />