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<br />Orange County water supply reservoir water levels <br />Available information as of 1:00 PM, Thursday, May 11, 2006 <br />Lake Orange <br />• Water level is at the point where it is freely spilling {full) over the spillway.. <br />• Water storage capacity remaining is 100°l0 (475 million gallons) <br />• Current Eno River flow at the Hillsborough gage is approximately 16 cfs (10.3 million <br />gallons per day). <br />• Eno flow levels, which have averaged well above the 10 cfs flow that triggers Capacity <br />Use restrictions for the last five days {and 17 of the last 19 days). For about half of the <br />last 19 days, flows have averaged at or well above historical median water flows <br />(approximately 30 to 50 cfs for this time of year) as a consequence of thunderstorm and <br />other rainfall activity. <br />• There are no Eno River Capacity Use Restrictions in effect at this moment, and it now <br />appears unlikely that instream flaw conditions that would initiate restrictions will be seen <br />within the next week to ten days even with no additional rainfall. <br />West Fork Reservoir <br />• Water level is at full capacity <br />• Water storage capacity remaining is 100% <br />OWASA Reservoirs <br />• Water level at Cane Creek Reservoir is 9.3" below full <br />• Water level at University Lake is 24" below full <br />• Total remaining water storage capacity is approximately 93.5% <br />• Approximately 340 days of water supply remaining (at yearly average daily <br />demand f9,0 million gallons per dayJ) <br />National Weather ServicelNOAA Regional Precipitation data {inches above [+] or below [-] <br />normal) <br />RDU <br />-6.34" for 2005 <br />-4.79" since January 1, 2006 <br />-1.02" since March 1.2006 <br />Piedmont-Triad <br />-9.94" for 2005 <br />-6.91" since January 1, 2006 <br />-4.19" since March 1.2006 <br />Miscellaneous notes <br />1. Orange County is within the area that, as of 4 May 2006, was upgraded from the "severe <br />drought" to the "moderate drought "classification as per the NC Drought Management <br />Advisory Council. <br />2. The OWASA service area remains under the OWASA-declared a Water Supply <br />Advisory {which alerts OWASA customers about potential water supply shortages and <br />providing advanced notice that additional [beyond those specified in OWASA's year- <br />round conservation requirements] water use restrictions could be imposed if <br />supplyldemand conditions da not improve in the near future. <br />