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086 2 . The Commissioners should request the Orange County Planning Board to formulate alternative approaches for protecting and enhancing natural areas as identified in the survey into the Long Range Plan for the County. The alternative should include at least the following options: a. dedications, b. fee purchases, c. real estate transfer fees, d. preferential tax policy, e. developer contributions in lieu of on-site dedications. * Most of these are being accomplished at this point with the exception of transfer tax and the Long Range Plan of the rest of the County other than the buffer area. 3 . Special attention should be given to protection of the North Carolina Botanical Garden and those sections of Duke Forest located in Orange County. WATER RESOURCES 1. The Board of Commissioners should direct the Orange County Reservoir Siting Committee to develop a proposal for the manage- ment of the water of the Upper Eno River during drought condi- tions. The proposal should include an operational definition of a drought, a set of rules for allocating available resources under a range of conditions that may exist during a drought, and a rule governing the release of water from upstream reservoirs to maintain appropriate levels of instream flow. That committee should report its findings to the Commissioners for review on or before December 31, 1987. * This recommendation should be dropped as the water conservation ordinance addresses most of the concerns. The sub-committee had not seen the ordinance when this recommendation was proposed. 2 . The Commissioners should consider the adoption of an Ordinance requiring the posting of a performance bond of sufficient size to provide a reasonable guarantee that private wastewater pack- age plants will continually satisfy their effluent limits. 3 . The Commissioners should direct the Health Department to conduct a sanitary survey of County watersheds in 1987 and repeat that survey at intervals not exceeding three years. The survey should identify any activities that continuously discharge to streams in those watersheds, activities from which stormwater w runoff could reach the streams, or activities that could acci- dentally discharge to streams. Results of that survey should be made available to purveyors of public water supplies both in the County and to others who may be affected.