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44 304 Larry Wright: i would like to close the discussion. LeYs vote on this first issue. Can you state it again,Craig? 305 306 Craig Benedict: This criteria is a county designated criteria where we take the Class II reservoirs, Lake Orange,West Fork on 307 the Eno and do a half mile buffer around them and accepting that over any ridgeline encroachment that you would cut off that 308 half mile buffer at that point. Also,below the reservoir dam,you do not see a half mile buffer there on this criteria because the 309 water doesn't flow from below the dam to above the dam. 310 311 Larry Wright: I would like to entertain a vote. All in favor for this Class I I protection. 312 Vote: Unanimous 313 314 Craig Benedict: The next bullet is applying the criteria that we are protecting the streams between these two Class II Reservoirs 315 and where they are picked up in the next reservoir down here. This is the Eno River and the West Fork of the Eno River. This 316 criterion creates a half mile buffer on both sides of the stream. 317 318 Earl McKee: Is it my understanding that by using the half mile buffers in this area,that we are going to require a larger lot size by 319 definition and my question is this reservoir, even though proposed,may or may not be built. If the reservoir was sitting there, I 320 don't have a problem with putting a half mile boundary around it to protect the water quality of the lake if it exists. I realize the 321 water is flowing from the reservoirs through the stream bed down to the pick up point but I question that the likelihood of 322 additional pollution,not like a Hurricane Fran situation,but additional pollution from the stream flow down. I am questioning the 323 need for this half mite boundary on the river or creek from the reservoirs down to Corporation Lake. 324 325 Craig Benedict: There were two questions. One is we are not putting our buffers against this future reservoir that was ghosted 326 in We are just going to the actual Eno River and this is the West Fork Eno River. We are not talking about the bubbles out here 327 in this criteria. The reason for it is the water that gets picked up at Lake Ben Johnson and Corporation Lake is a combination of 328 water that is held back in these reservoirs plus all these little streams that feed into Eno. We are saying additional 329 sedimentation;more impervious could create difficulties for the quantities in these two points. This is not a major change. In this 330 whole section,this is less than what it was before. 331 332 Earl McKee: Have there been or are there studies taken at the dam or just below the dam site on both these reservoirs and just 333 above Corporation Lake to compare the water quality as it exits the reservoir and is picked up at Corporation Lake. 334 335 Craig Benedict: There is not but last night on our agenda, we did get approval to get sampling points along sections of the 336 Neuse River Basin so we are starting to do samplings at different points on the Eno but we don't have any water quality data. 337 There have been studies by the Upper Neuse River Basin Authoriry that suggested lower densities and lower impervious in these 338 areas which we can provide you with that supports our keeping a critical area of this size. 339 340 Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: In terms of what we are going to hear,looking at protecting space between the reservoirs,are we still going 341 back to A and B? 342 343 Craig Benedict: We are going to go exactly as shown. 344 345 Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: If we vote on that,we will still consider the critical area line in terms of either A or B? 346 347 Craig Benedict: As we go through these criteria, you will be making decisions over here. They will be defacto decisions by 348 voting on these things it will be answering those questions. 349 350 Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: When we are looking at streams between the resenroirs,that doesn't necessarily address the issue of the 351 critical line at Seven Mile Creek Reservoir? 352 353 Craig Benedict: We are not there yet. 354 355 Mark Marcoplos: What we are looking at is that we are protecting the water in the two reservoirs with a relatively high standard 356 because we have already decided we will protect the half mile around those two reservoirs. We are protecting water quality 357 because we believe that is the right thing to do. That water will then flow down to Corporation Lake and Ben Johnson Lake 358 where it will be picked up for treatment. The streams are flowing in and the same water we are protecting up in the reservoirsis 359 coming down to the treatment facility. It would be highly illogical not to protect that water all the way to the pipe. 360 361 Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: It was already protected in the 1994 plan they are just changing the lines and you are saying the reason we 362 want to change these lines is because.... 363