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~:c '7 ,~~ 526 In June, 1962 the Research Triangle Regional Planning Commission published "A General Plan For the Development of the Research Triangle Region as Affected by Waste Disposal and Water Resources". The following is quoted from pages 99 and 100; It T.4in Ai acs. Teen Lake elevation Feight of dam Maximum depth of lake Area of lake Capacity of lake Daily supply capacity Approxir}ate Goat Little River Dam (Description give.) Crabtree Creek Dam (Desaription given.) Falls of the Neuae Dam (Desaription given.) -l~.00' above main sea level _lp5 i -eo' -1,075 acres -12.$ bSllion gallons -58 million gallons -2.2 million dollars" On page 99 the report points out "that the proposed development could provide important recreational faailitles". The large fold-out map shows "Lake Eno" colored in blue. Also fn June, 1962 Durham City Council adopted a resolution requesting the Stat® of North Carolina to reclassify appropriate segments of the II'1o River to Class "A-IT" in order "that these waters may be protected as sources of public water supply to serve the City of Durham". The resolution included the following language: "During the last fifty years the City has authorized a number of engineering surveys and reports on possible sources of water; the City has paid half the coat of operating stream gauging stations on the Flat, Eno and Little rivers and the tributaries in cooperation with the U. S. Qeologica7, Survey, in order to have adequate in- formation on which to base i~tvre water supplies; the laboratory staff of the City has analysed thousands of samples from these rivers in order to have adequate information on water quality; and all of these studies positively confirm that future water supplies fpr this city and area must be developed on the Flat, Eno and Little rivers and that they must be protested for this purpose." On September 18, 1962 Mr. J. M. Jarrett, Diraotor of the Sanitary Engineering Division, State Board of Realth wrote a 7.etter to the State Stream sanitation Commission: "We have had samples of water from both rivers collected for baoteriological and chemical analyses and find that the streams are satisfactory to use as a source of municipal water supply. Therefore it is requested that the Eno River and tributaries be reclassified in order to protect the quality of water in the streams for use as a~public water supply for the City oP Durham." On February 7, 1963 the State Stream Sanitation Commission held a public hearing on Durham's request for reclassification. Included in Durham's teatimany was a letter Prom Mayor E. J. Evans which said in past: "The City's plena for the future development of a source of water on the Eno River do not embody any change or development in the planning which has been serried on for more than fifty years. Our request for reclassification is a reaffirmation of such long-time interest in the use of the waters of the Eno." At the same aubli.c hearing Mr. Pearson R. Stewart, Executive ]Jireotor of the Research Triangle Regional Planning Commission testified as follows; "The prospective move to protect the quality of additional water resources available to the entire Durham area, the Eno River and the Little River cannot come too soon. Consequently the Research Triangle Regional Planning Commission supports the respective reclassification of the Eno and the Little to water supply elasaification."