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~~ <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />A RESOLUTION DETERMINING THE INTENT TO USE WELL AND SEPTIC <br />TO SERVE THE NEW SOLID WASTE OPERATIONS CENTER ON EUBANKS ROAD <br />WHEREAS, Orange County is in the process of designing a new Solid Waste Operations Center that is <br />tentatively slated to open in mid-2007 on County owned property on Eubanks Road, just inside the Rural <br />Buffer; and <br />WHEREAS, Orange County deems the Solid Waste Operations Center to be an essential public facility; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, the interlocal Water and Sewer Management, Planning, and Boundary Agreement between <br />the. County and its municipalities permits the extension of water and sewer lines into the Rural Buffer to <br />serve an essential public facility; and <br />WHEREAS, the County Commissioners adopted a resolution in May 2005 reflecting the County's intent. <br />to pursue extension of water and sewer lines to this essential public facility, and in keeping with the spirit <br />of the interlocal agreement, solicited comments on the resolution from other partner governing boards; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, elected officials of the Towns of Carrboro and Chapel Hill raised concerns at the September <br />29, 2005 Assembly of Governments meeting about Orange County's consideration of extending water <br />and sewer lines to the planned Solid Waste Operations Center; and <br />WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of Commissioners remain firmly committed to the preservation <br />and protection of the Rural Buffer, and acknowledge the difference of opinion that may exist regarding <br />the definition of an essential public facility; and <br />WHEREAS, since that meeting, the County has acquired additional property immediately adjacent to the <br />parcel of land on which the Solid Waste Operations Center will be constructed; and <br />WHEREAS, acquisition of that property substantially increases the County's flexibility for carrying out <br />several important solid waste system functions; and <br />WHEREAS, the additional acreage affords the County the opportunity to construct the building on a <br />revised footprint that will make the use of a well and a septic system feasible; and <br />WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners have asked the project architects to design the facility <br />accordingly; <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Orange County Board of Commissioners does <br />hereby state its intention to open the Solid Waste Operations Center with a design that relies on well and <br />septic system to provide water and wastewater treatment to the new facility. <br />This, the 21St day of February, 2006. <br />... Barry Jacobs, Chair <br />