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CA BARRUS COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT Post Office Box 707 CONCORD, NORTH CAROLINA 28025 MEMORANDUM TO: Mr. Charles D. McGinnis/County Manager FROM: Mr. Thomas B. Robinson/Planning Director DATE: March 13, 1985 SUBJECT: Jerry E. Hunter Letter of March 8, 1985 in reference to County take over of Cannon Water and Sewer System for Roberta Area In response to your inquiry concerning the above referenced subject, I have talked with Mr. Melvin Rape, Assistant Chief Engineer for Cannon Mills, about the county taking over this system. Mr. Paul Watson, the county's consulting Engineer with HDR, and I talked extensively with Mr. Rape about this subject last summer. At that time, Paul and I came to the conclusion that the take over was basically a break even situation for the county except that the sewer system did have excess capacity that could be utilized as well as considerable salvage value. The sewer system is in excellent shape while the water system is in poor condition and in need of replacement. The thirty residents on this water system will have direct access to the county's new water system and this old system should be abandoned when the county system is operational. The sewer system is near Coddle Creek and should be tied onto the Coddle Creek outfall line when constructed. Given the opportunity to discontinue a private water system, the excellent condition of the sewer system and the revenues from user charges being sufficient to offset expenses, Paul and I were in favor of the county accepting this system provided details were satisfactorily worked out. In trying to negoitate these details, we came to a problem in that Cannon Mills wanted to sell the county the land where the package treatment plant was located, lhis term was unacceptable and the matter was dropped at that point. In the last month the subject of county take over of the Roberta system has again come up in discussions of needed rights-of-way from Cannon Mills for the county water system. If Cannon Mills will turn over the subject system as indicated in Mr. Hunter's letter and will also agree to help cover any operational deficits over a certain time period due to system fails, etc., then I would recommend that the county agree in principle to take over this system with the details to be worked out in the near future once our County Engineer is on board.