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Commissioners hear developer request for pump station at Sanctuary at Southgate Phase 2; motion to deny introduced
Summary
County staff and the developer presented options to serve Sanctuary at Southgate Phase 2 with a wastewater pump station, including lifecycle costs and who would pay initial construction. A motion to deny the pump-station request under county code was made at the meeting; a final vote or outcome was not recorded in the transcript.
The Union County Board of Commissioners on Feb. 18 heard a request to approve a wastewater pump station to serve the Sanctuary at Southgate Phase 2 development in Indian Trail and received two engineering alternatives with different lifecycle costs.
County Manager Brian Matthews told the board the developer proposed installing a local pump station that would pump flows to an existing gravity line and ultimately to the Poplin Road regional pump station and the county’s 12 Mile Creek wastewater treatment plant. Matthews said the county’s lifecycle model uses a 20-year planning horizon and estimated a life-cycle cost of about $2,100,000 for the developer-built pump-station option; an alternative that routed flow farther and required upgrades to Porter Ridge and Philstone pump stations carried a lifecycle estimate of roughly $3,600,000 over the same period.
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