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1 <br /> ORANGECOUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMNIISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: May 5, 1997 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item # Q_ (L <br /> SUBJECT: Phase H of the Orange County ground water resources investigation <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: Yes No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): BUDGET AMENDMENT: Yes No <br /> County Engineer's Memorandum INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> USGS' Draft Scope of Work County Engineer Extension 2303 <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 <br /> PURPOSE: To present, for the BOCC's review, approval and commitment of funding, a draft <br /> scope of work for the phase two portion of the water resources investigation. <br /> BACKGROUND: In 1993, the Board of County Commissioners created the Orange County Water <br /> Resource Committee(WRC). The committee was charged with assessing the status <br /> of the County's ground water resource, in terms of quantity and quality, in general <br /> conformance with the provisions of the County's adopted ground water resource <br /> goal. <br /> In accordance with its charge, the WRC worked with the US Geological <br /> Survey to develop a proposal for a first step or initial phase of a ground water <br /> investigation. This initial phase was intended to utilize an analysis of ground water <br /> recharge to streams to provide a broad summary of baseline information on the <br /> quantity of ground water in the different drainage basins and sub-basins of the County. <br /> The investigation's approach to evaluating the resource on a drainage basin-by-basin <br /> approach toward was intended to a provide better general understanding of ground <br /> water availability. It was not intended to provide data that would allow for site-specific <br /> estimates of ground water quantity. The proposal for the initial or phase one portion of <br /> the ground water investigation was authorized by the BOCC on March 21, 1995. The <br /> USGS report on this investigation, entitled"Ground Water Recharge to the Regolith- <br /> Fractured Crystalline Rock Aquifer System, Orange County,NC", was formally <br /> presented to the BOCC on December 2, 1996. <br />