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Chapel Hill, tbsmship Advisory Council • September 8, 1983. - age 2 - P Gover ments (a regional planning body) and the Soil Co nsercrat ri 'Service, Dr. Bennett asked bow capacity is detemnined. Luce responded w that in some cas capacity figures es prri/id d and for of ers In used a relatively v.ly ac ci tee capacity rreasurement method Used by the U.S. Geological. Survey. He..lle..added. that his figures were checked by the State Water Resou.rces Department. . Irvin noted that often a conflict of objectives ocoirs. Tr► pa± cul r b Oited the Agricultural. Task For Report's entbasis on prize agr icRa].tnlral land-pro- tection. He noted that scirre of- the best agricultural land lay along the strew valleys where the pacoposed Cane Creek l r-voir is to be located. Ha added the the yield of m flk per acre for this area compares with Stein. fL expressei • concern that in the last ten years.20% of the County's agricultu at land bad been converted and an even greater..percentage•had been caonverted- in Chatham Co due to the ,Tordari Reservoir. lie indicated that difficulty' in resolving this cc Eliot concerned which need was greataer;agr3,c.:ultural land protection or water .. quality.and supply Dian_ Dirs. Irvin noted that currant conservation rceasures here inadequate given the amount of wager wastage. Luce responded that this concern was addressed in a I recorrrendation. :bird:. Irvin also'cited the California zetfly crisis as indicative of the crit'ica -importance of protecting agricultural areas. r cation 05 , . No =rent. • = Becarmendation #6: Dr. Bennett inquired as to the largest sources of-wat er wastage. Duce.identifie pure water wastage in activities such as lawn watering. Bennett asked if these real Zy constitutes waste_, Luce responded that it would be waste in a water shim situation-%%- He-added:,that:recent building code revisions require low flow rreasw in new homes. Bennett cited'waste from leak? faucets. Luce. cited the mal4nitu of waste from system-leaks, adding that CS claims they have minimized such losses: de et ion•program. Bennett also noted potenti al. pollution pmt vn ge w Luce indicated that the remaining recomanendations concerned water quality.