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of water remaining in the water supply reservoirs in the County, as measured and indicated by lake levels. The portion of the ordinance dealing with the OWASA system and reservoirs has not enacted since the development and filling of the Cane Creek Reservoir. It has been enacted, in conjunction with the Eno River Capacity Use Plan, to restrict water use from Lake Orange and the Eno River system for nine of the last ten yeazs. As drought and water supply conditions require, the provisions of the County's water conservation ordinance are both enacted and rescinded by means of a formal resolution by the BOCC or by means. of an order of the Chair of the BOCC. As of Tuesday, October 6, the water level at Lake Orange was slightly more than twenty-four inches below the spillway overflow. In accordance with the provisions of the water conservation ordinance, a water conservation alert status is declared or proclaimed when the water level at Lake Orange is twenty-four inches or more below the spillway overflow. The proclamation advises citizens who use water from either the Orange- Alamance or Hillsborough systems to begin voluntarily conserving water by restricting their water use by ten percent. Simulatneously, the provisions of the Eno River Capacity Use Agreement require that Hillsborough, Orange- Alamance and Piedmont Minerals restrict their water withdrawals from the. Eno River to the Level II allocations specified in the Agreement. All parties to the Eno River Capacity i~se Agreement have been notified; effective as of midnight October 6, to reduce water withdrawals in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement. RECOMMENDATION: The Manager recommends that the Boazd adopt the attached resolution declaring a Stage II Water Shortage Alert and authorize the Chair to sign.