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TO: FROM: RE: DATE: John Witherspoon County Manager G e r a ld ~e wt o n Direct~fr of Planning, Zoning, and Building Inspection 1) Potential waterline extension on NC 24/27 utilizing North Carolina Clean Water Revolving Loan; 2) upsizing the sewer line for the Howell Center project to accept additional usage. September 1, 1993 Over the past several months my office has been working on trying to generate additional interest in the sewer project for the Howell Center. This is being done so that the new sewer lines in this southern section of the County Qill be sufficiently sized thus avoiding a future parallel sewer line. It has also been pursued so that we would generate a "buy-in" to the system at a cost of $500 per acre or lot, whichever is greater. One-half of this is retained by the County, thereby reducing the overall cost of the system to the County. While nearly every large property owner has had strong interest in the project, no one is at a point of commitment. Using a force main, we will be very limited in the taps that will occur. The main stumbling block with the property owners is the possibility of water lines for the area. With the widening of NC 24/27 out from Mecklenburg County and a land use plan detailing future development of the area, the property owners won't commit into the sewer project without knowing the potential for water also in the area. If water does become available, the sewer line will be undersized. When the County Commissioners accepted the N.C. Commerce Finance Center's grant of $216,247 in April we had already been working on upsizing the sewer line and trying to secure funds for waterline extensions into the same area. We found out late in the CDBG application process that there was a water contamination problem very near the Howell Center. RAM Leather, a Mecklenburg County