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Gen. Hurow asked Mrs. Garrett "does the fact that the name of the Authority is 'Orange' draw a picture in your mind that this is the vehicle to administer water or control of water resources in the County behalf of the Commissioners. Is that something you are not sharing with me." Chairman Garrett replied "when we talked about this years ago, we didn't put any boundaries on the Authority because we thought, well, who knows what the future is going to bring. How do we know what is going to be twenty years form naw and what will be the best mechanism for delivering water and sewer, twenty years from now. So we did not put any boundaries in -- to go into Chatham or to go into Durham, whatever the people think is the best system, but it's not on behalf of the Commissioners:" Commissioner Gustaveson stated "I think that's a good question, because when you list all the things we are involved or will be involved in, that at some point we are going to have to get into some kind of major water resource commission for the County and we list 201 and 208..." General Hurow interrupted "Norm, listen to Shirley's question and this is what started my head thinking in this direction - the kinds of problems and they are not passed yet, complex problems that one encounters when you leave apolitical jurisdiction and start chopping up things to fit, say geography, this is nothing to do with political boundaries. You begin to suffer because you get half of an area that's included and some that doesn't and you figure out who is paying what taxes, this one more than that one and this fellow pays differently from someone else, but a least you stay within a County, it has a reasonable chance of success because we all belong to the same club. I think Shirley is very correct to raise the issue of the complexities of 201 faces, because it does jump across boundaries and political subdivisions and causes all sorts of problems." Braxton ~'oushee asked "when we start talking about 201 and 208 haw is the water quality going to be affected by what the Cane Creek residents are going to be continued business out there, dairy farming, or what have you. Or will there be any affect at all?" Mrs. Garrett replied "well, that's one of the things~~we were very concerned about and Art wanted Mr. Waters to answer that. Mr. Waters replied "I can't answer precisely what's going to happen five years from now when there are new regulations to tell what the fertilizers can be and this sort of thing. All T can say is that three years ago with the stream reclassification, Cane Creek was up' to water standards and it is still being sampled and is there now. A11 I was trying to say was that whatever whey were doing must be O'Ii now, 2 still don't know and I really don't have that crystal ball to say what going to happen five years from now. I'm sorry, I wish I did, but I couldn't answer the question the other night." Shirley Marshall asked "if the County could come and help with the water supply and sewer supply, as we are doing with the Orange Water- 5ewer Authority, if these governmental regulations came down and they are going to be a.~.law for all the people, is the County going to feel that it is all ra~ght to help them out and the structures they have to build under the new regulations?" Mrs. Garrett said "do you mean that if a dairy industry had to do certain things to comply with the fact that it was located close to a .....~~ Ms. Marshall said "yes, that's right." Mrs. Garrett stated, "I think it's something that everyone would be interested in working with. Now I don't know what the regulations weuld be. For too long I think people have.l~ooked at land and they see it is vacant and if there's not skyscrapers on it, they say well it's there for whatever you can plant on it and forget that as it was raised the other night, and I think we are all well aware of, that the dairy industry is a very important industry and you take that considera- tion into account."