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50 669 670 Pete Hailenbeck: I was concerned that the bubble at Panther Branch was an anomaly of the criteria used to define the zones. I 671 think it is inconsistent to the flow of that creek. 672 673 Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: I wonder how many other third order creeks that haven't been identified. We should have all the third order 674 creeks identified before we vote on one. 675 676 Craig Benedict: The second one is the two streams,Crabtree Creek and stream 2109 doing a Yz mile buffer on either side of 677 these streams,one mile from where they enter into Seven Mile Creek. 678 679 Larry Wright: All in favor. 680 Vote: Unanimous 681 682 Mark Marcoplos: One thing I want to say. 683 684 Larry Wright: Please quickly. 685 686 Mark Marcoplos: I know you all probably don't want to hear this...l think you really do want to hear it... 687 688 Larry Wright: When you do this,say at the beginning that you want additions to the agenda. 689 690 Mark Marcoplos: I will summarize it quickly. We will talk about regional water next month. On page 21, Planning Board 691 Ordinance Review committee, it talks about the issue of whether we want to preserve all these potential reservoir sites as 692 reservoir sites because that is a major part of the review. We are basically saying protect some of the sites as natural areas. I 693 was on the OWASA board for 6�/z years through the droughts,we purchased the quarry when I was on the OWASA board and 694 that is a major part of the future water supply for Chapel HiIVCarrboro and it was never discussed as being anything other than a 695 source for Chapel Hill and Carrboro. It is essential to Chapel Hill and Carrboro. In addition to that,one of the major policies that 696 was enacted while I was on the board was to maximize conservation of our local resources before we went outside the region to 697 get water because it was apparent to us on the board that we have that capability. We are talking about needing that water in 698 2035. There was a meeting a couple of months ago that I first heard mentioned that there was any discussion of Orange County 699 outside the Chapel Hili/Carrboro area getting water from that quarry. Such a major issue and somebody somewhere said to you 700 that this might happen. We don't need water from Jordan Lake. Chatham Counry needs it, Durham County needs it. Chatham 701 Counry overreached. They have houses there that plan to be buiit that don't have water. Durham did the same thing. They 702 want water from Jordan Lake. OWASA has an intake on the west side of Jordan Lake that is a prime intake site. They came to 703 OWASA and Orange County and said let's all work together because you have what we want,this intake. There is this thing 704 quietly going on that threatens to regionalize the water. It is a big issue,do we partner with these other municipalities and lose 705 an incredible utiliry in OWASA. At a Assembiy of Governments meeting last year,I went and gave my statement about it. Many 706 other elected officials also said to OWASA, this doesn't make sense. We don't think this is a good idea;we have great water, 707 why should we bail these other jurisdictions that didn't plan very well. OWASA has continued with this process despite the 708 feedback. 709 710 Craig Benedict: A Mr.Efland did provide an email that was distributed about stream ID 1498,Panther Branch,please read that. 711 712 ..,..,,,.�,,...*.*...�.,.**.�,.�*.....�...,.,,.,*....... 713