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TOWN OF MIDLAND PO Box 589 • 4293 -B Hwy. 24/27 E • Midland, NC 28107 Town Office: 704 - 888 -2232 • Town Fax: 704 - 888 -2234 townofmidland @midlandnc.us • www.townofmidland.us Dear Mayor Padgett and the Concord City Council, On behalf of the Midland Town Council, I am writing to request the City of Concord to formally bring the following request to the Water and Sewer Authority of Cabarrus County (WSACC) Board at their August 15 annual meeting: Request: In order to extend sewer services into areas of environmental need and to ensure the adequacy of system expansion for future needs, in accordance with the long range plans adopted by WSACC, that WSACC participate in the upsizing of the gravity sewer line for Midland's Cabarrus Acres Phase 1 sewer project. The gravity line will be a WSACC owned and operated 15 inch diameter minimum line (with an 18 inch add alternate) identified as Cabarrus Acres Muddy Creek Interceptor 1 (CAMCI 1). The Town of Midland agrees to pay an acceleration fee for the line by participating in funding equal to the following: 1. Midland will provide the cost of 100% of the necessary surveying, easement acquisition and design engineering, and 2. Midland will provide 25% of the construction cost. Background The Concord - Midland Interlocal agreement was adopted by both municipalities in the Fall of 2012. Per the agreement, the Town of Midland may provide the funds and /or regulatory action that expands the sewer system in the Midland jurisdiction. When those projects are completed, the lines are turned over to the City of Concord to own and operate unless the lines are funded by loan monies in which case Midland owns the lines for the duration of the loan collateralization and then the Town turns the lines over to the City of Concord. One of the first projects since the Interlocal Agreement is Cabarrus Acres Phase 1 sewer project. Initial drafts of the project included a pump station, which is not ideal. However, in working with the project engineers, McGill Associates, Concord and WSACC staff, Midland has found an option that would avoid the pump station in the Cabarrus Acres Phase 1 sewer project and use a gravity interceptor sewer line. The interceptor sewer line would run along Muddy Creek to the WSACC main trunk line. The potential gravity line has been identified as Cabarrus Acres Muddy Creek Interceptor 1 (CAMCI 1). CAMCI 1's course goes across the future Wallace Park property owned by Cabarrus County. Because this line serves multiple public purposes, WSACC staff is comfortable recommending to the WSACC Board that the gravity line be a WSACC owned and operated line. Since the line would serve multiple public purposes, WSACC staff recommends that the line is upgraded from an flinch to a 15 inch line with an 18 inch add alternate included in bid documents. The CAMCI 1 line is actually already identified in WSACC's Southern and Eastern Area Wastewater Study by Arcadis in 2005. Since the line construction would occur earlier than anticipated, WSACC staff Attachment number 1 G -4 Page 182