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ORD-2013-037 Ordinance approving Budget Amendment #2-B and Eno River Assoc. Conservation Easements and Funding Assistance
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ORD- 2013 -037 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 15, 2013 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 5 -g <br />SUBJECT: Eno River Association Conservation Easements — Funding Assistance and <br />Approval of Budget Amendment #2 -B <br />DEPARTMENT: Environment, Agriculture, Parks PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />and Recreation ( DEAPR) <br />ATTACHMENTS <br />1. Infinity Farm Location Map <br />2. Infinity Farm Easement Map <br />3. Buckquarter Creek Tract Location <br />Map <br />4. Buckquarter Creek Tract Site Map <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />David Stancil, 245 -2510 <br />Rich Shaw, 245 -2514 <br />1 <br />PURPOSE: To consider a contribution of County funds for the acquisition of permanent <br />conservation easements by the Eno River Association to protect significant natural resource <br />lands at Infinity Farm (Cedar Grove Township) and along Buckquarter Creek (Eno <br />Township); and to approve Budget Amendment #2 -B. <br />BACKGROUND: The acquisition of conservation easements to protect highly important <br />natural and cultural resource lands in Orange County is a longstanding goal of the Board of <br />Commissioners, and is a priority of the Lands Legacy program. Since 2001, the County has <br />partnered with landowners and other entities to protect 2,030 acres of prime farmland and <br />riparian buffers with conservation easements. <br />Over the past several months DEAPR has worked with the Eno River Association on projects <br />to conserve highly significant land and water resources at two locations: Infinity Farm in <br />Cedar Grove and the Buckquarter Creek Tract located northeast of Hillsborough. The Eno <br />River Association has gathered funding from several sources with which it intends to <br />purchase conservation easements from the owners of both properties. <br />Infinity Farm is a 161 -acre property located on McDade Store Road in Cedar Grove <br />Township. Owners Joy and Robert Kwapien intend to grant a permanent conservation <br />easement to protect a 61 -acre forested area located on the West Fork Eno River and 1,000 <br />feet upstream of the West Fork Reservoir, a drinking water source for Hillsborough. The <br />property helps to buffer the river from farm activities and provides significant wildlife habitat. <br />The easement will prohibit future subdivision and maintain the entire 61 acres as forestland. <br />The Buckquarter Creek Tract is 41 acres located south of St. Mary's Road and adjacent to <br />Eno River State Park (Eno Township). The property is mature pine forest with 500 feet of <br />frontage along Buckquarter Creek (Eno River tributary) and 5,800 feet along other streams <br />that feed Buckquarter Creek. The landowners, Ann Bacon Hollowell and Mary Ellen <br />
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