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�9 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Ag Item No. ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: JULY 7, 1986 SUBJECT: An Ordinance Providing for the Conservation of Water During a Water Shortage, Restricting the Use of Water and Water With- drawals, and Allocating Augmented Streamflow from Reservoirs. DEPARTMENT: COUNTY MANAGER PUBLIC HEARING: Yes _ x No ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: MANAGER'S OFFICE,X501 ORDINANCE TELEPHONE NUMBER: Hillsborough - 732-8181 Chapel Hill - 968-4501 Mebane - 227-2031 Durham - 688-7331 PURPOSE: To consider adopting the ordinance upon the first reading. NEED: General welfare and public interest require that the stored water resources of Orange County be managed in such a manner as to provide optimum public benefit, subject to reasonable regulation in order to conserve this resource for the longest duration during a severe drought condition. The proposed ordinance seeks to accomplish this. It esta- blishes successive stages of conservation restrictions (volun- tary, mandatory, severe, stringent, rationing) for the public to follow as conditions warrant. it also establishes for the first time a drought management plan for withdrawals and instream flow releases on the Upper Eno River Basin. Impor- tant features include: 1. Instream flow release as recommended by the State--start- ing at the 7Q16 rate and scaling back to 0 as lower lake levels are reached. 2 . Water transfer from Graham and Mebane subject to the approval of those jurisdiction to a formal request and subject to acceptable cost sharing arrangements being agreed to by Hillsborough and Orange Alamance. 3. Continued back-up support to the OWASA, alert in at lesser amounts per day and staggered over a longer period. This provision is subject to the approval of Hillsborough. 4 . Delayed need for the Orange Alamance Corporation to take its plant off line until the severe levels of the drought.