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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ,55,ade� .�. <br /> A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE MORGAN CREEK VALLEY ALLIANCE $ o� <br /> WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of Commissioners has established protecting the County's <br /> major watercourses and water supply watersheds as a high priority, and <br /> WHEREAS, the Morgan Creek valley forms the University Lake watershed, as it courses through <br /> southern Orange County, Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and eventually into Jordan Lake, and <br /> WHEREAS, the Morgan Creek Valley includes scenic, cultural, recreational, water supply and <br /> wildlife resources including rare and valuable micro ecosystems, and <br /> WHEREAS, the County owns land along tributaries of Morgan Creek, and has planning and <br /> zoning authority over a significant portion of its valley, and <br /> WHEREAS, the County has already taken significant steps over the years to protect the important <br /> and sensitive ecology of Morgan Creek though planning and the implementation of watershed <br /> protection standards that exceed State minimum rules, and <br /> WHEREAS, the newly formed Morgan Creek Valley Alliance seeks to conserve the natural and <br /> cultural heritage and ecological integrity of the region and to protect the water quality of the <br /> Morgan Creek Valley through increasing public awareness, cooperation and broad participation, <br /> and <br /> WHEREAS, the Alliance is a voluntary cooperative effort which in its initial stages has included <br /> broad participation from property owners along the creek, the N.C. Botanical Garden (through <br /> which it flows), the Chapel Hill Museum, the Towns of Carrboro and Chapel Hill, Orange County, <br /> OWASA, UNC-Chapel Hill, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Triangle Land Conservancy, and <br /> others: <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Orange County Board of Commissioners <br /> hereby welcomes the establishment and supports the mission of the Morgan Creek Valley <br /> Alliance to conserve Morgan Creek through public education, cooperation and coordination of <br /> public and private parties, and voluntary conservation efforts to protect the natural and cultural <br /> heritage and to protect the water quality. <br /> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Orange County Board of Commissioners encourages the <br /> Alliance to pursue its broad based strategy with maximum involvement of the public in the interest <br /> of protecting one of our most valuable resources. <br /> This, the 5th day of February, 2002. <br /> ate--`-- <br /> Barry J s, r <br /> Orange unty Bo of C mmissioners <br /> ATTE <br /> Beverly Blyt , Clerk the Board <br />