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434 parent involves a responsibility that should not be given up to the community, the schools, or the government, least of all. T do hope my friends will keep their "Flo buttons" and perhaps in the future 1 can serve again. Chairman Garrett recognized Frank Chamberlain and Dave Reynolds of Triangle J Council of Governments, working on the 203 areawide Water Quality Management Planning Project; and Al Rimmer of Wiggins- Rimer and Associates of Durham. Mr. Chamberlain stated that the 208 program had accomplished some bf its goals, however, the 208 program is not complete. The Com- _ pletion date is in October. Two milestones have been reached. First, a preparation of an inventory of existing resources in the region that effects water quality. He stated that the 208 pro- gram is an effort to prepare a comprehensive plan that can be imple- mented for the local units of government, and to be conducted on an area wide basis. Mr. Chamberlain stated that what happens in other regions of Orange County ~.~~hen rainfall hits the earth and water runs off into streams and creeks certainly affects people in other areas. He stated that there were many by-products that had come from the 208 program. One is a map of existing land use or ground cover in Orange County which has been scaled. From the computerized information on the map and from a census tract in Orange County, the 208 team has prepared a listing of land use types in Orange County and their per- centage of acres in each census tract showing the types of land and their usage. Mr. Chamberlain continued by stating that the second milestone reached is a Pollution Source Analysis to determine the significance of water pollution sources, their causes and effect. Mr. Chamberlain asked have Reynolds to comment about the water quality of the streams in Orange County. Mr. Reynolds stated that the pollution source analysis was to be an emphasis on the effects of storm water runoff from nonpoint sources, such as agriculture and forests, as a result of rainfall as well as storm water runoff from urban lands. A major emphasis had been placed on the urban area, because the team felt this area would have the highest potential pollu~ian problem and would also be the most meaningful to control if problems were evident. He spoke of the monitoring and sampling programs within the 208 Program. He stated that water quality was monitored over a period of one year with six stations throughout the region. There are eleven sampling stations to monitor the kinds of storm water runoff, the quality and quantity of runoff from different types of land. Mr. Reynolds stated that tools had been developed from this information which would be very useful in the future to see what effects land use has on water quality. One of these tools is a storm water runoff model developed for the entire 208 area which will be of utmost use in the 208 Program. 4 The 208 Team has developed a.set of 1983 water quality goals. All 208 effort is directed to this 19$3 water quality goals and' that goal is that all waters in the United States by 1983 be fishable and swimable, where obtainable. He spoke of~the cost to develop the 1983 water quality goals. Mr. Reynolds concluded his presentation by stating that the 20$ team does not see significant problems in our streams, but minor problems scattered about and they do not see a major need to correct these problems. They do know that suspented solids problems exist and they are looking in denial at this matter. Mr. Al Rimer, a consultant from Wiggins and Rimer, spoke of Cane Creek. He stated that he had tried to define a potential water problem from agriculture use in the area of Cane Creek. His responsibility was to characterize what effect farming activity in Orange County,particularly the dairy indastry in that area, might have on the water quality in the proposed reservoir; will the people