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E3�� pFDUipy4 CITY OF DURHAM 18 NORTH CAROLINA 69i ° 4,1.1\ �Q 6,5'N-EARetv OFFICE OF MAYOR E.J. EVANS "Mr. E. C. Hubbard, Secretary State Stream Sanitation Committee Division of Stream Sanitation and Hydrology Department of Water Resources Raleigh, North Carolina Dear Mr. Hubbard: The City of Durham, North Carolina, has requested that the Eno and Little Rivers, located in Orange and Durham Counties, be reclassified so that the City of Durham can use the rivers as a source of water for the municipal water supply. We have had samples of water from both rivers collected for bacteriological and chemical analyses and find that the streams are satisfactory to use as a source of municipal water supply. Therefore, it is requested that the Eno River and tributaries be reclassified from the Eno Cotton Mills Dam to its confluence with the Neuse River from D and C classifications to A-II classification and that the Little River and tributaries be reclassified from the source to its confluence with the Eno River from C and D classifications to A-II classification, in order to protect the quality of water in the streams for use as a public water supply for the City of Durham, North Carolina." Signed—J. M. Jarrett, Director Sanitary Engineering Division In support of the City of Durham's request for reclassification of the Eno and Little Rivers, we wish to direct attention to certain facts concerning these Rivers which we believe to be of vital importance not only to the City of Durham, but to a very large area surrounding the City. In the first place, the City's plans for the future development of a source of water on the Eno River do not embody any change or development in the planning which has been carried on for more than 50 years . Our request for reclassification is a re-affirmation of such long-time interest in the use of the waters of the Eno. It is a fact that the City of Durham was supplied water from the Eno from 1877 until -3-