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1 <br /> O R A N G E C O U N T Y <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: June 29, 1993 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item # V.If1-A <br /> SUBJECT: Raw Water Allocations From Jordan Lake <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: County Manager <br /> or County Engineer Ext. 2300 <br /> EMC Request for Payment <br /> EMC' s Bill from COE <br /> List of Jordan Lake allocations TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> and payments Hillsborough-732-8181 <br /> Section .0500 NC Administrative Durham-688-7331 <br /> Code Mebane-227-2031 <br /> Section 6 - Raw Water Transmission Chapel Hill-967-9251/968-4501 <br /> from Jordan Lake - Orange County <br /> Water Supply Study, Phase I, <br /> by Hazen and Sawyer <br /> PURPOSE: For the Board to determine if it wishes to maintain Orange <br /> County' s Level II (long range) 1.0 million gallon per day <br /> (mgd) allocation of raw water supply from Jordan Lake and if <br /> it wishes to pursue acquisition of all or a portion of the <br /> allocations relinquished by the Town of Hillsborough and the <br /> Orange-Alamance Water System <br /> BACKGROUND: In the spring of 1988, the North Carolina Environmental <br /> Management Commission (EMC) signed a contract with the US <br /> Army Corps of Engineers, owner and developer of Jordan <br /> Lake, to acquire the rights for 45,800 acre-feet of water <br /> supply storage providing 100 mgd yield of raw or untreated <br /> water. This contract requires that the portion of the <br /> lake' s development, construction, operation and maintenance <br /> costs associated with water supply be repaid by the state <br /> to the Corps over a fifty year period. Costs associated <br /> with Jordan Lake' s value and use for flood control, <br /> recreation, etc. , are to be borne by the Corps. <br /> In conjunction with the Corps-EMC contract, the EMC also <br /> adopted an administrative rule which provides guidelines <br /> for allocation of Jordan Lake water supplies to local <br /> water purveyors and for determination of the repayment of <br /> costs calculated on the basis of the amount of those <br /> allocations. The administrative rule specifies that water <br /> purveyors may apply for either a Level I allocation, with <br /> withdrawals beginning within five years of the date of <br />