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Mr. Willhcit stated "if we are unable to provide water for people in the sourthwestern section of the County, then it is not a total County water resource." Commissioner Whitted stated "but it would still be a multi-purpose water facility to be used .with regulations County-wide." Commissioner Garrett added "T think the Authority should really be the mechanism for providing water pipes and....." Commissioner Whitted stated:"I would think that part of the general - revenues of the County would be used to pay off the bond for that pur- pose. Another question that comes up, and I know this is just how you would structure the whole thing in talking about bulk use, but since this is going to be a secondary water supply rather than a primary, if we have an extremely rainy year, you may not release any, if you've got water stored in University Lake there may not be any need to re- lease water, so if you went on bulk use, then there would not be any revenue and you would have to figure out some other way." Shirley Marshall stated "this brings us to a ticklish thing that we'll struggled through sc much is, has the County thought of what this will do to the management structures and how it would fit into the 201 and 208." Mrs. Garrett replied "I think how it would fit into 208 is how we protect the quality of the water." Ms. Marshal 1. continued "but we've talked with Durham~~.about the difficulties of the Authority dealing with a jurisdiction, and 2 want to make sure that we are not moving into any pramatic area .problems." Mr. Morris inquired "what is your answer now when the Town of Hillsborough draws water down from Lake Orange." Unidentifiable voice "do you measure what is released?" Mrs. Garrett replied "no." Mr. Patterson stated "but that is paid out of general obligation bonds, and the County is paying for that." Commissioner Garrett stated "that's an interesting point, when Orange-Alamance came into being and built a dam between Lake Orange and Hillsborough, so before the water can get to Hillsborough, it has to go through Orange-Alamance Lake.........(cannot decipher) "but all of this as we have talked about gets very....." Mr. Howes interrupted "that's why I think the prospects of changing water between the system of Cane Creek and the system of theirs' there ought to be treated with considerable care, because we really are chang- ing watersheds." Mrs. Garrett added "yes, Mayor Cates said that to the effect that if there's an emergency, that's one thing, but if you are building Seven Mile Creek for southern Orange than they might object to that." Chairman Morris asked "is there any other potential location in the County, the Commissioners are looking on to supply coater, other thane. Seven Mile Creek and Cane Creek?" Mr. Gattis replied. (cannot decipher) An unidentifiable person asked "am I hearing you say that the Authority will have the control of Gane Creek, or would it be......" Mrs. Garrett said "I'm not sure I understand." Commissioner Gustaveson stated, "I agree that I think there would be "(cannot decipher). Mrs. Garrett stated "what I was saying was it seemed to me that it's not in the best interest of everything we have all been working for in the County to locate an industry out Hwy 54, and say look, we built that reservoir, we're going to decide to put the water there, that's what I was saying.....2 think it should be through the process of the Authority."