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