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• - <br /> . • 11 <br /> evaluated to assure their effectiveness in <br /> accomplishing water quality protection and supply <br /> objectives. Where necessary, technically sound and <br /> legally defensible revisions to those standards and <br /> policies should be adopted and implemented which <br /> specify land use patterns and intensities of <br /> development in water supply watersheds and water <br /> quality critical areas that minimize potential <br /> adverse impacts on water quality. <br /> 4. Adequate protection standards should be delineated <br /> and established for watersheds in unzoned portions <br /> of the County. Furthermore, existing standards and <br /> policies which seek to protect water quality in <br /> Orange County streams tributary to regional water <br /> supply resources should be supported and <br /> strengthened, where necessary. <br /> 5. Programs which help to protect water quality, such <br /> as the Soil Conservation Service and Sedimentation <br /> and Erosion Control, should be provided with <br /> continued support and strengthened, where <br /> necessary. <br /> 6. A program of monitoring water quality in Orange <br /> County streams should be evaluated, and, if <br /> feasible, established in coordination with utility <br /> providers and State agencies. Similarly, an on-site <br /> wastewater treatment system inspection program <br /> should be evaluated, and, if feasible, established <br /> throughout the county, with particular emphasis on <br /> water supply watersheds and designated Water <br /> Quality Critical Area <br /> Draft: 7-31-87 <br /> Revisions: 8-26-87 <br /> 9-2-87 <br /> 11-16-81 <br /> 11-24-87 <br /> 9-17-88 <br /> 11-21-88 <br /> 04 <br />