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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 15, 2011 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. `~ - (~, <br />SUBJECT: Water and Sewer Management, Planning, and Boundary Agreement <br />(WASMPBA) Clarification <br />DEPARTMENT: Manager's Office <br />Planning & Inspections <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. Proposed Resolution <br />2. Excerpt from OWASA's Long Range <br />Water Supply Plan, Statement from <br />Town of Hillsborough's Planning <br />Director, and Memorandum from <br />Planning Directors <br />3. Town of Chapel Hill Approval <br />Resolution <br />4. Letters Received and Sent on this <br />Topic <br />5. Existing Water and Sewer <br />Management, Planning, and <br />Boundary Agreement <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Frank W. Clifton, Jr., County Manager, <br />245-2300 <br />Craig N. Benedict, Planning Director, <br />245-2592 <br />Perdita Holtz, Planner III, 245-2578 <br />PURPOSE: To approve a resolution related to a clarification within the Water and Sewer <br />Management, Planning, and Boundary Agreement (WASMPBA). <br />BACKGROUND: The WASMPBA is a countywide utility management and boundary <br />agreement adopted in 2001 after years of local government and utility authority review. The <br />agreement sets forth important rules guiding land use, utility .extension policies, management <br />of water resources, accountability, and the subject of this clarification, water transfer. <br />On December 9, 2010 the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) forwarded a request <br />(included in Attachment 4) requesting a change in the WASMPBA to clarify emergency <br />transfers and non-emergency transfers. In reviewing the request, staffs of Orange County and <br />the Town of Hillsborough realized that the clarifications also applied to the County's and <br />Town's interests in Jordan Lake allocations. Orange County and the Town of Hillsborough <br />proposed changes to the adopting Resolution and Agreement text to include the County and <br />Town in the amendment language. The proposed additional language clarifies that the entities <br />have flexibility to transfer Jordan Lake water resource allocations through other entities <br />(interconnections currently exist with the Durham and Cary water systems). Staff believes it is <br />prudent that the Agreement be clarified so that it cannot be interpreted as possibly <br />constraining access to current and future Jordan Lake water supply allocations. Jordan Lake <br />