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Excerpt from Orange County 2030 Comprehensive Plan <br /> Chapter S: Land Use Element <br /> Extractive Use <br /> Land designated to encompass operations designed primarily for the <br /> mining and quarrying of those substances which are legally removable <br /> from the ground and substrata. <br /> Agricultural Areas <br /> Land which is actively being used for farming an forestry purposes and <br /> which qualify for or are listed for, use value taxation purposes. <br /> Stoney Creek Basin <br /> Land within the boundaries of the 4,696 acre Stoney Creek Drainage <br /> Basin southeast of the Town of Hillsborough in portions of <br /> Hillsborough, Eno, and Chapel Hill Townships. The area is triangular <br /> in shape and is bound generally by 1-85 to the north, the University <br /> Spur of Southern Railroad to the east, and NC Highway 86 to the west. <br /> CONSERVATION LAND USE CATEGORIES <br /> Public Interest Area <br /> Land which contains public or quasi-public uses such as publicly <br /> owned land, research forests or known archaeological or historical <br /> sites. <br /> Water Supply Watershed <br /> Land draining to existing reservoirs which serve as public water <br /> supplies, or to potential reservoir sites or stream intakes for drinking <br /> water withdrawal which have been designated for protection against <br /> threats to the water quality of future water supplies, in accordance <br /> with County watershed protection programs and the North Carolina <br /> Water Supply Watershed Protection Act of 1989. <br /> Watershed Critical Area, County Designated <br /> The land area within one-half mile of the normal pool elevation (or <br /> designated elevation) of an existing Class 11 water supply reservoir, or <br /> the ridgeline of the watershed, whichever is less; and the land area <br /> within one-half mile of the normal pool elevation (or designated <br /> elevation) of a proposed water supply reservoir, or the ridgeline of the <br /> watershed, whichever is less; and the area within one-half mile on each <br /> side of streams flowing into Class I reservoirs, as designated for <br /> protection within the Zoning Ordinance. <br /> Watershed Critical Area, State Required <br /> The land area within one-half mile of the normal pool elevation of &n <br /> existing or proposed public water supply ' reservoirs in <br /> which an intake is located (i.e., Class I reservoirs), or the ridge line of <br /> the watershed, whichever is closest to the normal pool elevation of the <br /> reservoir. <br /> Reservoir <br /> Land whieh J�tjblie water Supply 501:11,ce, Or tile Ilecessa <br /> attributes for PI—_—, a Water stipply impotindment to stipply an <br /> adequate quality of water for public ptirposes. <br /> Reservoir, Class <br />