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£ <br />CITYofORONO <br />RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL <br />A vy ^NO. •" _____ <br />A RESOLUTION GRANTING APPROVAL <br />FOR SEWER CONNECTION FOR <br />PROPERTY LOCATED AT <br />465-485 ORONO ORCHARD ROAD SOUTH <br />WHEREAS, Edward Hamm (hereinafter "applicant”) is the owner of property in <br />the City of Orono located at 465-485 Orono Orchard Road (hereinafter "the property") legally <br />described as follows: <br />Exhibit A attached; and <br />WHEREAS, the property is approximately 18 acres in area and contains a principal <br />residence structure containing 8 bedrooms and two individual guest house or caretaker house <br />stmctures each containing 1 bedroom, which would normally require 3 individual septic systems and <br />3 alternate drainfield sites; and <br />WHEREAS, the existing septic systems serving the 3 dwelling units are <br />interconnected and have exhibited intermittent failure for many years, and are also nonconforming <br />due to lack of 3' separation from the zone of seasonal saturation; and <br />WHEREAS, a site evaluation has been completed by a licensed Site Evaluator and <br />it has been determined that the property contains only two suitable drainfield sites instead of the six <br />that would normally be required, and use of such sites would have the following negative impacts: <br />1. <br />2. <br />Use of the tested sites would require continued interconnection of septic systems <br />serving three individual dwellings, and the associated complexities and problems <br />inhereiit in such interconnections, <br />• * * • <br />Use of the suitable primary septic site would require the removal of at least th^ <br />mature pine trees and jeapordize other trees in the area; use of the alternate site would <br />similarly result in the removal of younger trees which provide screening and would <br />similarly jeapordize mature trees in the immediate area. <br />1-3 <br />Page 1 of 4