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i. 1 ORANGECOUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: August 17, 1999 Action Agenda Item # /O -Q SUBJECT: Report on Topics for the Proposed September 2nd Meeting on Local Jurisdictions' Coordination to Access Jordan Lake Water Supply DEPARTMENT: County Manager ATTACHMENT(S): 4/13/99 letter from Alice Gordon to Daniel VanderMeer County Manager's letter to OWASA PUBLIC HEARING: Yes No BUDGET AMENDMENT: Yes INFORMATION CONTACT: County Engineer Extension 2303 No County Manager's letter to Chatham County TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Chatham County Engineering Consultant's Hillsborough - 732 -8181 Response to BOCC questions /issues Durham - 688 -7331 OWASA Response to BOCC questions/ Mebane - 227 -2031 issues (under separate cover) Chapel Hill - 967- 9251/968 -4501 PURPOSE: To consider responses from OWASA and Chatham County with regard to topics of discussion for the proposed September 2 "d Board Meeting on local jurisdictions' coordination to access the Jordan Lake water supply. BACKGROUND: The subject of Chatham County's access to its Jordan Lake water allocation and the role that Orange County, the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, and OWASA might play in facilitating that access have been a subject of discussion for nearly a year. An interlocal meeting has been proposed for September 2, 1999, to discuss this issue. On July 14, 1999, the Manager sent letters of inquiry (see attached) to Ed Kerwin, Executive Director of OWASA, and Charlie Horne, County Manager of Chatham County, to ascertain their jurisdictions' interests and concerns relative to the Jordan Lake access issues and to the proposed September 2 "d meeting. The response from Chatham County is attached. The response from OWASA will be forthcoming on Friday, August 13", and will be provided to the Board under separate cover. It is proposed that those responses be discussed by the BOCC at August 17' meeting and again if necessary at the August 31" work session.