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9 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF ORANGE MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL and COUNTY OF ORANGE REGARDING UTILIZATION OF FORMER WATER SUPPLY WELL THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into between The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a North Carolina educational university, C/O University Property Office, 103 Airport Dr., Suite 128, Campus Box 1060, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 (hereinafter referred to as the "University"), and the County of Orange, a Body Politic and Corporate of the State of North Carolina, 200 South Cameron Street, Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 (hereinafter referred to as the "County"), for the utilization of a former water supply well. WITNESSETH WHEREAS, the parties to this agreement are public bodies under the laws of the State of North Carolina; and WHEREAS, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a former seismic research facility located off Ray Road, 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 utilization of this well and 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 agree, each with the other, for the joint use of facilities for the stated public purposes; and WHEREAS, the parties hereto agree to allow the use of the water supply well at the former Gerald R. MacCarthy Geophysics Laboratory identified on a map attached hereto as Attachment 1 for part of the proposed Orange County Groundwater Observation Well Network, an {00026835.DOC}