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45 364 Mark Marcoplos: You are just matching reality of what we have learned since then. We certainly logically would want to protect 365 that so I don't see any logical way we wouid want to say let's not protect it. 366 367 Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: That question isn't on the table. We can't undo the 1994 decisions;we are talking about the 2010 lines. 368 � 369 Craig Benedict: Recreating the 1994 with better definitions. 370 371 Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: Without undoing the 1994 so that is not even under consideration. 372 373 Mark Marcoplos: I was picking up on a little bit of consideration of maybe some changes there. 374 375 Earl McKee: I am not suggesting changes, my question is have there been studies done as to the water quality at the base of 376 the two reservoirs and at the pick up point at Corporation Lake to find out whether there is a change of water qualiry in that 377 stream flow. Is it the same quality at the base at the beginning or is it deteriorating on the way down and if it has been 378 deteriorated on the way down then that would be the logical extension of how far back the boundaries should be. 379 380 Tommy McNeill: Mr.Benedict,is there a concern of yours about that? 381 382 Craig Benedict: The development that is there now is an existing condition so we are trying to prevent contamination by lower 383 impervious and higher densiry. The study may not show if we ever did a study five years from now and we let that go back to 384 one unit per acre and found a problem then there is no way we can tell people to get out of there. We are going to do a study to 385 create some benchmarks but we are suggesting that we need to stay at that one unit per two acres so we don't get into difficult 386 situations. 387 388 Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: We don't know if all these zoning requirements and restrictions actually get to the end we want which is 389 better quality water, the evaluation hasn't been done so we don't know if all this zoning and Class I, Class II, etc. makes a 390 difference. 391 392 Perdita Holtz: There have been studies throughout the country that talk about how higher density and higher urban development 393 leads to worse runoff conditions. We are trying to minimize the risk that we will have problems. 394 395 Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: I am trying to interpret what Earl is saying,he wants to know if we know now that this makes a difference 396 and the outflow.... 397 398 Earl McKee: I am not suggesting we take out the`94 line or go to one half mile but when we get down further and start talking 399 about these bubbles,I have questions. I am not suggesting we take out the half mile protection on this stream. My question is is 400 there a study as to whether,the half mile seems to be arbitrary in some respects,and I realize it had to be set at some point. 401 What I am trying to balance is the need for the water to be protected to have any quality at all against personal properry rights. 402 How does it balance out between the rights of the property owners versus the needs of the water users because water users do 403 not own that property? 404 405 Larry Wright: Craig,does this really affect property rights? 406 407 Craig Benedict: I see the zoning in this case as not overly restricting what the land can handle which means it does not affect 408 the properry rights. 409 410 Larry Wright: I would like to entertain three more questions,and then I am going to close the discussion. LeYs make sure the 411 questions and comments pertain to the point at hand. 412 413 Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: Is this a half mile across here or a mile? 414 415 Craig Benedict: One half mile at either side of the river,one mile total. 416 417 Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: What is the river it runs down? 418 419 Craig Benedict: Eno River. 420 421 Larry Wright: Tell us about what we are voting on and tell us about the preservation and what we will be doing and voting on. 422 423 Craig Benedict: Do you want to create a half mile buffer around these streams, Eno River, Upper Eno River,and West Fork on 424 the Eno River and keep them in the critical area?