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4 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF ORANGE AGREEMENT DUKE UNIVERSITY and COUNTY OF ORANGE REGARDING UTILIZATION OF FORMER WATER SUPPLY WELL THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into between Duke University, a North Carolina nonprofit corporation with an address of Campus Drive, Durham, North Carolina 27705 (hereinafter referred to as the "University"), and the County of Orange, a North Carolina municipal corporation, 200 South Cameron Street, Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 (hereinafter referred to as the "County"), for the utilization of a former water supply well on University property for observation by County. WITNESSETH WHEREAS, the parties are vested with the power and authority to own and improve real estate for educational, research and other purposes; and WHEREAS, Duke University owns a teaching and research forest known as the Duke Forest, which is used for educational and research purposes, which consists of several divisions, including the Blackwood Division located in southern Orange County; and WHEREAS, Orange County is interested in monitoring groundwater conditions across the County, and as such, intends to develop the Orange County Groundwater Observation Well Network, an assemblage of observation wells located across the County; and WHEREAS, the County and the University recognize the mutual benefit and interest of the parties hereto, and to the public generally, in the operation of the proposed Groundwater Observation Well Network; and WHEREAS, the laws of the State of North Carolina provide that the parties hereto may contract and provide for the joint use of facilities for the stated purposes; and WHEREAS, an out-of-service water supply well identified on the map attached as Exhibit 1 hereto ("OOS Well") is located off Eubanks Road in the Blackwood Division of Duke Forest; and