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WHEREAS, assurances made to Orange County by the Orange-Alamance Water <br /> System as early as 1968 that Orange-Alamance would develop a <br /> water supply and treatment facility in the Haw Creek watershed <br /> sufficient to serve its Alamance County customers and would cease <br /> the interbasin transfer of water from the Eno River; and <br />WHEREAS, the Towns of Mebane and Graham have entered into a water sales <br /> agreement with Orange-Alamance which requires that Orange- <br /> Alamance abandon plans for developing the Haw Creek water supply <br /> and request the declassification of the Haw Creek watershed as <br /> a protected water supply watershed so that it can be developed <br /> without the encumbrances entailed by watershed protection <br /> regulations, and which additionally requires that Orange-Alamance <br /> use its entire Capacity Use Agreement raw water withdrawal <br /> allocation from the Eno River prior to obtaining water from <br /> either the Mebane or Graham water .systems; and <br />WHEREAS, the Haw Creek watershed remains a viable alternative for <br /> development of a water supply for Orange County, the Town of <br /> Hillsborough, the Orange-Alamance Water System or another water <br /> purveyor who could employ Haw Creek water supplies to provide <br /> water to western Orange County and compensate for the loss of <br /> water from the Eno Basin to the Haw Basin resulting from Orange- <br /> Alamance's use of water from the Eno to supply its customers in <br /> Alamance County; <br />NOW, BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the Orange County Board of Commissioners <br /> opposes the declassification of the Haw Creek watershed, strongly <br /> supports the Town of Hillsborough in its opposition to the <br /> declassification of the Haw Creek Reservoir and requests that the <br /> NC Environmental Management Commission decline the petition to <br /> declassify the Haw Creek watershed and; <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Orange County Board of Commissioners request <br /> that the NC Division of Environmental Management classify the Haw <br /> Creek watershed with the highest watershed classification <br /> supported by the current land use in the watershed unless and <br /> until another water supply in the Haw River basin can be <br /> developed to compensate for the interbasin transfer of waters <br /> from the Eno Basin during times of low flow in the Eno Basin. <br />VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br />B. PROCLAMATION OF WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH <br />Motion was made by Commissioner Willhoit, seconded by <br />Commissioner Halkiotis to proclaim the month of March, 1992 as Women's <br />History Month in Orange County. The proclamation is stated below: <br />THE ORANGE COUNTY COMMISSION FOR WOMEN SUBMITS THE FOLLOWING <br />PROCLAMATION TO THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />WHEREAS, American women of every race, class, and ethnic background have <br />made historic contributions to the growth and strength of our <br />Nation in countless recorded and unrecorded ways; <br />WHEREAS, American women have played and continue to play a critical <br />economic, cultural, and social role in every sphere of the life <br />of the Nation by constituting a significant portion of the labor <br />