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TOWN OF HILLSBOROUGH POSITION STATEMENT ON THE SCOTSW00D DEVELOPMENT . March 25, 1986 At the County Commissioners ' meeting on February 17 , 1986, the Board of Commissioners postponed a decision on the proposed Scotswood development in order to solicit additional public comments on water availability and other issues central to the decision on Scotswood. This statement represents the position of the Town of Hillsborough with respect to the issue of water availability, as well as other key issues raised by the proposed development. First, let me say that adequate water treatment capacity exists to accommodate Scotswood as well as other approved and planned developments in the Hillsborough area . As shown in Figure 1 , we are currently treating and consuming about 1.3 to 1.4 million gallons per day, which is less than one-half of the maximun design capacity of our existing water treatment . plant. With the addition of Scotswood as well as other presently approved and planned projects, we will be treating about 1 .8 to 1 .9 million gallons of water per day. This is based on a consumption estimate of 100 gallons per day per bedroom. Based on the higher estimate of 150 gpd per bedroom, we will be treating about 2.2 million gallons per day once Scotswood and •all other currently planned developments are built. When each of these projects is fully developed , according to our estimates, we will be using about two-thirds to three-fourths of our existing capacity, depending on which consumption estimate you use.