RES-2002-025 Resolution Endorsing and Agreeing to Sponsor and Host a Water Summit

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~ ~~'S'- 0 4O~- ~.7s 2 vr/~` DRAFT ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS A Resolution ~ Endorsing and Agreeing to 5ponsor and Host a Water Summit WHEREAS, Orange County, in discharging its statutory responsibilifies to protect and enhance the public health, safety and welfare of all the citizens of Orange County, does have a strong interest in assuring the availability of high quality sources of potable water; and WHER~AS, Orange County owns a~d operates Lake Orange, a water supply reservoir that serves as a primary water supply for the Town of Hillsborough and the Orange- Alamance Water Systein; and ' WHEREAS, Orange County coordinates the use of water supplies drawn from the Eno River under the provision of the Eno River Capacity Use Agreement; and WHEREAS, Orange Cou.nty has no pecuniary interest in the sale or iransfer of treated or raw water supplies within the County or elsewhere; and WHEREAS, Orange County's geographic location in the upper reaches of a number of water supply watersheds and in fractured rock geology severely limits the quantity of water available for drinking water supplies derived frorn either surface water and ground water sources; and ~ WAEREAS, the environmental impact and financial cost associated with the development and consiruction of new reservoirs renders the development of new reservoirs and water supplies within Orange County unlikely; and WHEREAS, Orange County does have an interest in making the most efficient use of limited resources; and WHEREAS, Orange County seeks to ensure that the demand for water supplies generated by population growth and development can be reconciled with availability of the resource in a smart, sustainable manner; and WHEREAS, The citizens of Orange County are provided municipal water utility services by the Town of Hillsborough, Orange Water and Sewer Authority, the City of Durham, the City of Mebane and the Orange-Alamance Water System; and