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O Q 3 3 Commissioner Willhoit stated a need to meet with OWASA and review their current situation to be sure all efforts are in concert to not drain Lake Orange more rapidly than University Lake is dwindling.. Everett Billingsley of OWASA noted that the. water level this riorning (October 18, 1983) was down 58 inches, and would like to endorse the actions of the Board and the recommendations of Commissioner Willhoit. Commissioner Willhoit noted in a letter received from John Ray, a suggestion that OWASA consider purchasing water from the Town of Mebane through the Orange-Alamance System. Commissioner Willhoit moved, seconded by Commissioner Marshall to approve recommendation 41: "The County should expeditiously have an accurate stage-storage profile developed for Lake Orange", and approve authorizing the County Manager to proceed with having Louis Callemyn survey the lake. VOTE: Ayes, 5; Noes, 0. Commissioner Willhoit moved, seconded by Commissioner Marshall to invoke Stage one of the adopted Ordinance, "Providing for Conservation of water in a Water Shortage" for application of its voluntary conservation measures in areas outside of OWASA's service area. Table 2 of the report received from the State Office of Water Resources should be used as a triggering mechanism on an interim basis until other figures are finalized. VOTE: Ayes, 5; Noes, 0. Commissioner Willhoit moved, seconded by Commissioner Marshall to authorize the County staff to take appropriate steps to reduce consumption consistent with the plan. VOTE: Ayes, 5; Noes, 0. Commissioner whitted noted that the application of this motion will be effective immediately in the county; feedback is needed from Orange-Alamance and Hillsborough to the State Water Resources Office proposal; the staff needs to provide daily updates of the status of Lake Orange and to the extent possible consumption figures from the Town of Hillsborough and Orange-Alamance; coordinate with OWASA to compare the two water systems relative to the quantity of water left; explore the possibility of getting water from Mebane with OWASA, Orange-Alamance, and the Town of Hillsborough; and before the next session give consideration of the downstream release at Cooperation Lake and Ben Johnson. Commissioner whitted stated that since there are only 52 days re- maining in Lake Orange, the staff and County Attorney should draft an Ordinance modeled after OWASA's. C-4. ,7saxS7 akP C a,,, fcaticn Commissioner Whitted shared with the Board the State Local Action Ageda presented by Secretary Grimsley to the Task Force on October 7, 1983 and th need to respond as requested. He noted that the water Resources Committee of the Council of Government worked closely with the staff from NRCD. The Board, Chapel Hill, the COG Committee and others recommended that the lake be classified as A-2. Secretary Grimsley recommended that the lake be classified as A-2, with no withdrawals for drinking water purposes from Jordan to be approved until the water is safe to drink with respect to toxic organic chemicals. Another concern of the Board relates to Item C "For existing dis- charge to Jordan, compliance schedules should be developed, for the New Hope Arm in particular, to enable an approximate two year period to initial phos- phorus removal". There are considerably more nutrients coming down the flaw River Arm than there are in the New Hope Arm. Therefore, there is a ten day flushing period in the Haw River Arm, and a 300 day flushing period in the New Hone Arm.