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County Land Cover <br />> Data - US Natural <br />Resource Inventory <br />(1997) <br />> Forestland down 13% <br />1982 -1997 <br />> Urban land uses up <br />87% <br />Other Biological Indicators <br />> Protected Identified Natural Areas (acres) <br />> Acres of Prime Forest <br />> Acres in Use Value Taxation Program <br />> Status of Rare Plants and Animals <br />Water Demand <br />> Finite Resource & A <br />Headwaters Area <br />> Per Capita Demand Up <br />15% -1985 -2000 <br />> Present Safe Yield 15 <br />MGD <br />> Need 18 MGD by 2030? <br />Acres of Prote <br />— -� <br />R <br />m: <br />cted Land <br />> Comprehensive <br />Resource GIS <br />Database <br />> 8,000 acres (3.1 %) <br />permanently <br />protected <br />> 17,000 acres total <br />(6.7 %) protected <br />Groundwater Contamination <br />_..__. »._.. --------- _ -_ -.-- <br />> State database <br />- <br />"i <br />> Reported versus <br />closed -out incidents <br />_ <br />., <br />a r r <br />> 91 spill incidents <br />f -- <br />reported 1996 -2001 <br />_.__.._......- ... ... ..::._..... <br />> 38 "closed -out >' <br />5 <br />3 <br />