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32 Seven Lakes Times February 6, 2009 NEWS Water (Continued from page 3) time to get it on.” “Shouldn’t the county be doing this?” Wilkison asked. “Yes, they should, and maybe they will, but we didn’t want to wait.” The Robbins water plant The Town of Robbins owns a water plant capable of producing 1.3 million gallons per day of drinking water, yet Robbins buys all its water from neighboring Montgomery County. interim Town Manager Tommy Combs explained in an interview with The Times that a Perdue Farms chicken processing plant had been town’s biggest water customer, using sixty-five percent of the plant’s capacity. When that plant closed, Robbins found the cost of operating the water plant to produce a mere fraction of its capacity would send residents’ water bills through the roof. So they mothballed the plant and started buying water. in 2007, the county and its municipalities funded a study of water sources conducted by McGill & Associates. Among the top recommendations of that study, delivered in December, 2007, was bringing the Robbins water plant back on line and laying pipe to carry that water to the county-owned system that serves Pinehurst and Seven Lakes. Aside from the mothballed water plant itself, the McGill consultants noted, Robbins also has an unused 120 million gallon reservoir. in addition, the town’s proximity to the Deep River — the only substantial source of surface water in the county — could open the future possibility of placing an intake in the river and treating that water in the Robbins water plant before shipping it south. The first step in getting all this rolling, McGill reported, was to investigate the cost of rehabilitating the plant. Robbins commissioned McGill to conduct the study. The results are expected in late February or early March. Partnership needed if Robbins can rehabilitate the plant and sell water to other communities “we’d get to own our own water supply for our own town,” Mayor Bell told The Times. “i think the world of Montgomery County,” she added, “but Montgomery County will have to look after its own first, if we have another major drought.” Moore County Public Works recently completed a connection between the system serving the East Moore Water District and the system that serves Pinehurst and Seven Lakes. That can provide up to one million gallons per day to the Pinehurst- Seven Lakes water system. But relying on out-of-county sources may have risks. “This is a Moore County source of water,” Pinehurst Manager Wilkison said, echoing Bell’s concerns. “That’s preferable to an out-of-county source. in a drought another county is going to have to prefer its own citizens.” Letter of intent The letter of intent approved by both the town and village councils contemplates the creation of an “interlocal Agreement” that would involve: • A financing plan for rehabbing the Robbins water plant and laying the pipe to carry that water to Pinehurst or Seven Lakes, • A construction plan for the plant, transmission lines, and water storage, • Terms for sale of the water to customers of the county water system, and • Terms by which an “additional unit of local government” may join the agreement. The letter indicates that work will begin on crafting the interlocal Agreement once the McGill study of the Robbins plant is in hand and that a go-no go decision FREE Oil Change Drawing Every Week on the agreement will be made by June 30. County participation That fourth bullet point in the agreement seems clearly aimed at making a seat at the table for Moore County. And, in fact, in Pinehurst village Council Work Session where the Letter of intent was approved, Moore County Board of Commissioners Chairman Nick Picerno was given a seat at the table. Both Mayor Bell and Manager Wilkison expressed a strong interest in seeing the county join the effort. “it’s not out of the question that just Pinehurst and Robbins could work together,” Bell said. “But if we are a county, why not have all of us work together to solve all of our problems? i would welcome that and thank that would be a smart move on their part.” Bell also said she thought Seven Lakes should have a seat at the table. Wilkison said the village was less concerned about which political entities are involved in the project than in getting it moving forward. “if at the end its Moore County and Robbins, then fine,” he told The Times. “But if it takes Pinehurst to get it started, then we are willing to make it happen.” Picerno welcomes dialog “in our county we have done lots and lots of talking,” Board of Commissioners Chairman Nick Picerno told The Times in a interview on Friday. “A lot of it has been really good and really necessary. But we have not gotten to the point of working out an action plan that incorporates all these viewpoints.” Noting that the Commissioners discussed water during their early January retreat and have a presentation from McGill and Associates scheduled for a February 19 work session, Picerno said, “i am very, very interested in getting things started.” Looking forward to that work session, Picerno said, “Let’s lay all the assets out on the table — everything we could possibly do. Lay it out like a roadmap. Figure out what we want to do when. We need to play out some scenarios. We have to have every piece of the puzzle brought to the table.” “Water is a major priority for our Board,” Picerno added, noting that it had been among the top four priorities identified during the Dan Kidd Sales Consultant Commissioners’ retreat. “Short term and long term supply, reliability of the system, and water quality are all priorities. We’re going to be like a bulldog with our teeth lockjawed onto this issue; we’re going to get it done.” “The way i see it, water is a necessity, not a luxury,” he said. Picerno told The Times that he expected to have additional informal conversations with both Robbins and Pinehurst on the subject of the water plant, and would likely include another Commissioner in those discussions. He told The TImes that some informal discussions among the relevant parties, including perhaps the Seven Lakes landowners associations, would be a useful step before bringing formal proposals to the elected bodies. The next such informal meeting may take place as early as PHILLIPS FORD 5292 Hwy. 15/501, PO Box 100, Carthage, NC 28327 Your Seven Lakes Neighbor Bus (910) 947-2244 Toll Free (800) 301-2659 Fax (910) 947-5792 phillipsmc4@embarqmail.com 2-20-09
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