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<br />Orange County water supply reservoir water levels <br />Available information as of 1:00 pm, Thursday, August 30, 2007: <br />Lake Orange <br />• Water level is approximately 48" below full. <br />• Water storage capacity remaining is approximately 63°10 (235 million gallons} <br />• Approximately 103 days of water supply remaining (at Capacity Use specified <br />release rate) <br />• We are still in Stage 2 as defined by the Eno River Capacity Use Agreement <br />West Fark Reservoir <br />• Water level is 30" below full. <br />Water storage capacity remaining is approximately 88.6°~. <br />More than 232 days of water supply are remaining (assuming Town's current daily <br />demand and releases for streamflow augmentation) <br />As of this afternoon, Hillsborough's Town Engineer has increased its release amount <br />from the reservoir from 2.7 cubic feet per second (cfs) to approximately 4.0 cfs. This <br />is four times their required release rate of 1.0 cfs for August. This part of a continued <br />effort to ameliorate the drought effects on Lake Orange. <br />OWASA Reservoirs <br />• Water level at Cane Creek Reservoir is 66.5" below full <br />• Water level at University Lake is 69.25" below full <br />• Total remaining water storage capacity is approximately 68.2% <br />• Approximately 210 days of water supply remaining {at current average weekly <br />demand) <br />National Weather ServicelNOAA Regional Precipitation data {inches above <br />[+] or below [-] normal) <br />RDU <br />-0.92" since June 1 <br />-5.34" since Jan. 1 <br />Piedmont-Triad <br />-6.07" since June 1 <br />-9.93" since Jan. 1 <br />Miscellaneous notes <br />1. The NC Drought Management Advisory Council drought map, dated August 28, 2007, shows <br />Orange County and counties to the East, West and South to be in a severe drought condition. <br />Counties to the North are shown to be in moderate drought conditions. <br />2. According to engineering staff records, Lake Orange has dropped lower than 48" below full 6 <br />out of the past 9 years. Three of those nine years, the lake dropped more than 5 feet (60"}. <br />