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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: December 2, 1996 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item# 15-4 <br /> SUBJECT: REPORT: GROUND WATER RECHARGE RATES IN ORANGE COUNTY <br /> ACTION BY: <br /> DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING: Yes__2L_No <br /> BUDGET AMENDMENT REQUIRED: Yes___X_No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Dave Stancil <br /> • Staff Report Summary Analysis (Ext 2590) <br /> • USGS Report"Ground Water Recharge to the <br /> Regolith-Fractured Crystalline Rock <br /> Aquifer System,Orange County,NC" <br /> (provided under separate cover) <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill - 967-9251 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider the findings of a U.S. Geological Survey(USGS)report on ground <br /> water recharge rates in Orange County. This project was jointly funded by Orange <br /> County and the USGS. <br /> BACKGROUND: On March 21, 1995,the Board of Commissioners authorized a jointly-funded <br /> study of ground water recharge in Orange County to be performed by the U.S. <br /> Geological Survey. This project was proposed by the Water Resources Committee <br /> as the first step toward the Committee's charge to investigate ground water <br /> resources in the County. <br /> The project was overseen by Dr. Charles Daniel, Research Hydrologist with the <br /> USGS and an Orange County resident. Dr. Daniel is among the pre-eminent <br /> researchers of ground water in the Piedmont region from New York to Alabama, <br /> and has published a number of reports on Piedmont ground water as well as co- <br /> authored a computer technique for ground water analysis. <br />