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.,1 . . :vORTH CAROLINA ORANGE COUN'T'Y This AGREE_NIENT, made and entered into in duplicate original. this the 1st day of August, 1977, by and between the COUNTY OF ORANGE, hereinafter referred to as COUNTY, party of the fizst part, and ORANGE WATER AND SE`vTER AUTHORITY, hereinafter referred to as AUTHORITY, party of the second part; W I T N E 5 S E T H: That WHEREAS, the AUTHORITY owns and operates water facilities serving customers in its service area in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and other areas of Orange County and parts of Durham County; and WHEREAS, COUNTY owns a dam and lake known as Orange Fake wherein it has impounded a public water supply; and WHEREAS, during the past several months the rainfall in the service area of the AUTHORITY has been so little as to cause a drastic shortage in the public watex supply available to the AUTHORITY for distzi.bution to and use of the people in the community it serves, and such scarcity. of water has created a situation of the magnitude which now threatens to be inimical to the public health and welfare, and constitutes a clear emergency; and WHEREAS, the AUTHORITY has requested the COUNTY to release for its use certain amounts of water from .Orange Lake and COUNTX is willing to do so upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of One Aollar ($1.00) and the benefits and detriments moving between the parties, and especially in consideration of making a cooperative effort to alleviate the hardship and the threats to public health and welfare caused by the existing drought, the COUNTY and the AUTHORITX, for themselves, .-- their successors and assigns, do mutually agree as follows: 1. Upon request of the AUTHORITY, the COUNTY will release watez from Orange Lake either directly or indirectly, as specified, for the exclusive use of the AUTHORITY to be processed and treated by the faci'ities of the AUTHORITY or under agreement between ~r ~ `-''aP.ITI C~ r.i lJ and another or others.