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The Rogers-Eubanks Road Community wants Orange County to stop dumping <br />garbage and toxic waste in their backyard -and that's exactly why we're here tonight. The <br />Rogers-Eubanks "Coalition to End Environmental Racism" (CEEB) supports the Ragers- <br />Eubanks Community in its demands for environmental justice. These demands include: <br />- Immediately eliminating the Rogers-Eubanks Road Community as a site for the <br />proposed solid waste transfer station and halting all solid waste activities in the <br />Rogers-Eubanks Community no later than November 2009. <br />- Honoring the promises made to the Rogers-Eubanks Road Community aver the <br />past 35 years for having endured the negative impacts of solid waste activities. <br />- Immediately addressing quality of life issues by providing this community with <br />municipal water and sewer services and other community enhancements to <br />ensure the health and safety of the residents. <br />All of us here tonight have a lot of work to do, and we are certain that having heard this <br />information, you will do what's right and bring environmental justice back to the Ragers- <br />Eubanks community. Thank you. <br />Chair Carey said that this is a matter for the Orange Caunty Board of Commissioners to <br />decide, and if the County Commissioners decide to put this an a future agenda, this group and <br />the rest of the public will be notified. <br />Mayor Chilton said that Alderman Jaal Hall-Braun sends her regrets far not being able to <br />attend because her two children were sick. He said that he did not expect to get into a <br />discussion about solid waste facility issues now, but he posted some comments on <br />orangepolitics.org earlier today about this topic. <br />Regional Water Resources Use and Preservation <br />a. Potential Joint Use of OWASA-Owned Jordan Lake Intake Site by Chatham <br />Caunty and OWASA <br />Executive Director of OWASA Ed Kerwin made this presentation. He said that <br />OWASA's stated goals as the highest and best use of the local water resources are the Cane <br />Creek, University Lake, and Quarry Reservoir systems. There has been some uncertainty that <br />even if OWASA does its best job at maximizing local water resources in Orange County, there <br />might not be enough water for the future needs in the service area. Beginning in 1988, OWASA <br />partnered with Orange County, Hillsborough, and other entities to request a future allocation <br />from Jordan Lake. These efforts were successful and OWASA obtained an allocation of 10 <br />million gallons a day of future supply if and when it would be needed. Several years ago, <br />OWASA determined that it did not need as much as 10 mgd in the future, and it voluntarily <br />requested to reduce the future allocation to its current level of 5 mgd. Also, in 1989, OWASA <br />purchased 125 acres in Chatham County adjacent to the Corps of Engineers properly along the <br />lake in an area determined to be an ideal location far an intake far raw water on the west side of <br />the lake. There is currently only one intake from Jordan Lake, which is an the east side, and it <br />is owned and controlled by the Town of Cary. The Corps of Engineers in the State of North <br />Carolina have let it be known that it expects only one additional intake for a public supply to be <br />installed in the lake, and that would be on the west side. This year, he received a letter from <br />Chatham County Manager Charlie Horne expressing an interest on behalf of the Chatham <br />County Commissioners that they might be interested in a regional approach to access Jordan <br />Lake. On August 14t", Orange County hosted a joint meeting with Chatham County and other <br />