Potable Water Alternatives for an Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Community in Wake County, North Carolina
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- February 28, 2019
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Benavides, Brenda
- Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
- Abstract
- Recent research identified cost as the most significant barrier to extending piped water to peri-urban communities in North Carolina (NC). This paper compares the costs to connect a Wake County, NC, community where monitoring has detected contamination in self-supplied wells to the nearby public, piped water supply, to install and maintain a whole-house water filter, or to purchase bottled water. A preliminary municipal pipe network design was prepared using WaterGEMS, and construction costs were estimated using historical data from similar projects. Bottled water and whole-house filter costs were estimated using publicly available data. The estimated construction cost for the water service extension is $870,000. The net present costs per household for the water service extension, water filter, and bottled water alternatives are $14,000, $9,000, and $27,000, respectively, over a 30-year period. This analysis provides novel cost information to inform decisions about improving water quality in this community.
- Date of publication
- October 2016
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- MacDonald Gibson, Jacqueline
- Reviewer
- Whalen, Steve
- Kolsky, Pete
- Degree
- Master of Science in Environmental Engineering
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 2016
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- 8cba0dee-11e2-4ec7-b8c3-3ccf79b43273
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