Sewer Water Connection Memo_Gaffron

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, , MEMORANDUM To: Scott Oberaigner Ron Olson Tom Kellogg Bill Wells From: Mike Gaffron, Asst. City Administrator Date: April 15, 2008 /April 7, 2009 Subject: Sewer and Water Connection Charges: Dunn, 20 Brown Road South McCuskey, 130 Brown Road South , BACKGROUND Fox Ridge Sewer Project Cor�nection Potential Absent Creekside Development As part of the Fox Ridge sewer project in 2000, a pressure sewer line was installed along the west side of Brown Road from Fox Ridge Road to Watertown Road. Property owners along the west side of Brown Road were asked if they wanted to participate in the project. A few did, most did not. Some of those who did not were provided with a stub access point along that pressure line for future connection, with the idea that they would pay the "going rate" connection charge at the time they connected. That rate has climbed to $21,140 per unit for 2009 for any new connections not previously assessed. This is the rate that Dunn or McCuskey would pay for a sewer coruiection if the Creekside subdivision had not happened. Properties on the east side of Brown Road were not provided with connection stubs; although thev were offered the opportunity to connect to the Fox Ridge project, they were also advised that a gravity line serving the property east of them may be in the offing, which would allow for future gravity connection. To serve either the Dunn property or the McCuskey property from the Brown Road pressure line would require boring service lines under Brown Road and installation of individual "E-1" pump stations for each property. The total cost to the homeowner far connection charges, SAC charge, permits, and actual pump station installation and connection to the sewer, would potentially exceed $30,000. Creekside Connection. The Dunn and McCuskey properties were subsequently each provided connection stubs to the gravity sewer system installed by the developer of "Creekside in Orono". That gravity system was completely paid for by the developer, and it discharges directly to the Long Lake sewer system at the south end of Apple Glen Road. Municipal water is also provided by a parallel line from Long Lake. The Development Agreement between the City of Orono and Creekside in Orono LLC establishes that "upon completion by the developer and acceptance by the City of Orono, the sanitary sewer and water facilities within Outlot B and within the 30' utility easement of Lot 7, shall become the property of the City of Orono and become part of the City of Orono utility system, to be operated and maintained by the City of Orono."