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1 3 TRIANGLE AREA WATER SUPPLY MONITORING PROJECT 100 PARK DRIVE POST OFFICE BOX 12276 Received RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NORTH CAROLINA 27709 April 6, 1995 (919) 549-0551 Mr. John Link, Manager JUN 5 ., 1995 Orange County P.O. Box 8181 Managers Office Hillsborough, N.C. 27278 Apex Carrboro Dear Mr. Link: Cary It is time to consider phase III of the Triangle Area Water Supply Monitoring Project. Tile Project Steering Committee recommends that your Board adopt the attached Amendment Chapel Hill to the Interlocal Agreement, which would modify and extend the Monitoring Project for Chatham County four years. In order to meet administrative deadlines, it asks that you return a duly signed copy of the Amendment by May 31 st. Durham As you know, the Monitoring Project, which began in 1988, has been a unique partnership. Hillsborough The Steering Committee, with voting representatives from the participating local govern- Orange County ments, has a cooperative agreement with USGS to conduct the water monitoring and to share the monitoring costs (USGS provides a 100% cost match). In addition, NCDEM OWASA supplies data to USGS from its ambient monitoring sites for inclusion in the project data- base. The Project estimates that NCDEM's contribution has a replacement cost of Pittsboro $100,000. Finally, the Steering Committee contracts with Triangle J as the project man- Raleigh ager. This partnership results in the local participants contributing$231.733 to a monitor- ing program valued at$543.000. Sanford As the Steering Committee designed Phase III, one of its primary goals was to avoid cost Smithfield increases to local governments. We are pleased to report that we have met that goal. The City of Raleigh is now exploring other project alternatives to lower the monitoring cost. Therefore, the attached interlocal agreement includes two workplans. Workplan#1 - our strongest recommendation - includes the City of Raleigh. Workplan#2 is our recommen- dation in the event the City of Raleigh does not participate. Adopting the interlocal agree- ment essentially allows the Steering Committee to implement#1 or#2. Your cost is the same for either option. I would like to note that, in the coming weeks, Raleigh may send you an alternative monitoring project proposal about which the Steering Committee has serious technical concerns. If you have any questions about the attached interlocal agree- ment or any alternative proposal, please call me (968-4421) or your Steering Committee representative. Yours truly, Kathryn Kalb, Project Chair cc: David Stancil, Steering Committee Representative A WORLD CLASS REGION PUTTING VISION INTO ACTION