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1 ORANGE C O U N T Y BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: November 1, 1994 Action Agenda Item # SUBJECT: Implementation of Water Conservation Measures for the Eno River DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Proclamation County Engineer, ext. 2300 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough - 732-8181 Durham - 688-7331 Mebane - 227-2031 Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 PURPOSE: To issue a proclamation implementing the appropriate portion of the provisions of the Orange County ordinance entitled ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE CONSERVATION OF WATER DURING A WATER SHORTAGE, RESTRICTING THE USE OF WATER AND WATER WITHDRAWALS, AND ALLOCATING AUGMENTED STREAMFLOW FROM RESERVOIRS. BACKGROUND: As of July 1986, the Orange County BOCC enacted the County- wide ,water conservation ordinance named above. The provisions of this ordinance were intended to address periodic water shortages which had historically affected the water supply capacity of OWASA, the Town of Hillsborough and the Orange-Alamance Water System. The ordinance set forth several tables relating reservoir water levels, the quantity of remaining raw water supplies and water conservation measures. The ordinance also set forth a management plan for the Eno River by linking rates of instream flow with water withdrawals for Hillsborough, Orange-Alamance and Piedmont Minerals and with the water level (and remaining storage capacity) at Lake Orange. The tables were revised effective January 1988 to reflect the addition of flash boards and additional water storage capacity at Lake Orange. The Eno management plan portion of the ordinance was supplanted by the Eno River Capacity Use Agreement adopted in 1989. As drought and water supply conditions require, the provisions of the County's water conservation ordinance are both implemented and rescinded by means of a public proclamation issued by the Chair of the BOCC.