HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES-2000-009 Resolution Relative to Efland Sewer System Facilities On or Across Properties Owned or Controlled by Barber and Ross, NC Railroad Co. and Norfolk Southern Railway Co. 3
Resolution
Relative to Efland Sewer System Facilities
On or Across Properties Owned or Controlled
by
Barber & Ross Company, the North Carolina Railroad Company
and
Norfolk Southern Railway Company
WHEREAS, Barber & Ross Company approached Orange County about
opening a new millwork plant in the unused Redman Mobile
Home building and serving that facility by an extension of
the Efland sewer system; and
WHEREAS, Orange County agreed to allow Barber & Ross Company to
construct a force main type extension of the Efland sewer
system to provide sewer service to the Barber & Ross
Company facility; and
WHEREAS, extension of the Efland sewer system to serve the
Barber & Ross Company facility entailed installing portions
of the sewer force main in public -! NCDOT and the North
Carolina Railroad Company/Norfolk Southern Railway Company
- rights-of-way; and
WHEREAS, NCDOT and railroad companies typically require that
water and sewer utilities installed within their respective
rights-of-way be owned and operated by a public utility or
a government agency; and
WHEREAS, orange County agreed to assume ownership of the
portions of the force main system which were to be located
within public - NCDOT and the North Carolina Railroad
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WHEREAS, Barber & Ross Company has nearly completed its up-
fitting of the Redman Homes building and has constructed
all of the sewer system extension with the exception of the
portion which passes under the railroad and through the
railroad right-of-way.
NOW, THEREFORE, the orange County Board of Commissioners do
hereby (1) approVe, in substantially their present form, the
following agreements : Barber & Ross Company Agreement and Sewer
Easement; Norfolk Southern Railway Company Agreement; and North
Carolina Railroad Company Agreement and Consent; (2) authorize
the County Attorney and County staff to continue working with
the railroads to improve the agreements relative to ultimately
providing sewer service to the Buckhorn Road EDD; and (3)
authorize the County Manager to execute the agreements with the
railroads and with Barber & Ross Company in substantially the
form of the agreements attached to this Resolution when those
agreements are finalized.
This the 18th day of January, 2000 .
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