MINUTES
STATE OF
The Cane Creek Water &
Sewer District Board met for a regularly scheduled meeting at
Present were: Chairman Grady
Hawkins, Vice-Chairman Larry Young, Commissioner Bill Moyer, Commissioner
Charlie Messer, Commissioner Shannon Baldwin, County Manager
Also present were: County Engineer Gary Tweed, Jim Erwin and
Doyle Freeman of the County Utilities Department.
Minutes
Draft minutes were presented
for the Board’s review and approval of the following meeting(s):
Chairman Hawkins made the motion to approve the
November 19 minutes as presented. All
voted in favor and the motion carried.
Sewer Extensions within municipalities
Chairman Hawkins had shared a
copy of a letter from Mayor William B. Moore (Town of
Chairman Hawkins stated that
there has been a lot of things change in the district since the policy was
adopted in October of 1996:
The County sold the Mud Creek Sewer Service,
The district lines for Cane Creek have completely
changed,
There is a new municipality in the district,
as well as other things.
He questioned whether the Board might want to make some changes to our
policy statement on sewer line extensions.
Chairman Hawkins stated that
Commissioner Messer may want to take this issue to the Sewer Advisory Committee
for their review and recommendation.
There was a mention of
mandatory hook-ups and Mrs. Beeker addressed that. She confirmed for the Board that the NC
Supreme Court has said that you can do mandatory connections. If the Board elects to change the policies
then the Ordinance would need to be updated.
Right now the assets are owned and operated by the Cane Creek Water
& Sewer District so the power for mandatory hook-ups is the Board sitting
as the Henderson County Board of Commissioners not as the Cane Creek Water
& Sewer District. If the Board
chooses to go that route, there would have to be some interlocal
cooperation between the two Boards.
There was some discussion of
a need to send the policy to the Advisory Committee and to the
Mrs. Beeker informed the
Board that the statutes give other options for revenues for the district. Mandatory connections are not the only way to
raise additional revenue for the district or pay for a project. She will share that information with the
Commissioners in their mailboxes.
Sewer Line Extension Request #X00048CC
David Nicholson referenced a
memo from Doyle Freeman of the Utilities Department from an applicant
requesting permission to construct approximately one thousand six hundred fifty
six (1,656) linear feet of 8” gravity sewer line to serve their 5 lot
commercial development.
The sewer line extension will
connect to an existing Henderson County Line (Park Ridge Industrial Park
Line). Upon completion of the sewer line
extension, the applicant would deed the sewer system to
The proposed commercial
development will generate approximately 2,500 GPD of commercial domestic
wastewater which has been approved for treatment by MSD. The wastewater allocation is a part of
The Utilities Department
recommended approval of this application being conditional upon the following:
1. Applicant
complying with the sewer use ordinances of
2. Applicant
providing a future 20’ permanent easement from manhole #5 to the western
boundary of lot #2.
3. Applicant
providing a future 20’ permanent easement from manhole #7 to
4. Applicant
securing easements for off-site sewer and be transferable to
5. Applicant
addressing issue of
The sewer line extension is
considered routine since the allocation request amount is under
40,000 GPD, no funding is requested by the applicant, no annexation is involved
and the remaining allocation is more than 500,000 GPD.
Based on the Ordinance, Mr.
Nicholson approved this request but presented it to the Board as a monthly
report at this time.
Adjourn
Chairman Hawkins made the motion for the Board to
adjourn as Cane Creek Water & Sewer District and reconvene as
Attest:
Elizabeth W. Corn, Clerk to
the Board Grady Hawkins,
Chairman