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. <br /> • <br /> protection standards. <br /> For the most part, the • recommendations <br /> in this area were through the <br /> throughithe usehof , <br /> Orange County Land Ue <br /> zoning, subdivision, and other regulations. State action also . <br /> helped in this regad With <br /> o£ the <br /> Environmental <br /> Cane Creek and University source in 1988 the <br /> thoseState • <br /> agreed to prohi bit point <br /> Watersheds. <br /> Recommendations regarding conservation were addressed through <br /> the adoption of the Orange County teConservationmentation <br /> Ordinance in 1986. Similarly, revisions <br /> and Erosion Control rn ® nnsloni <br /> incorporated erosion <br /> ncorporarated el lements of the recommendations <br /> control and stormwater management. <br /> While the water supply recommendations of the Task Force <br /> ii stopped short of endorsing immediate construction oneo <br /> reservoir, joint action by the County's water suppliers <br /> protect and preserve potential sites was stronglyenndlorsed. <br /> The Task Force also endorsed the County seeking an <br /> from atron uieawerencreated by place <br /> allocation Division of Water <br /> allocation n guidelines <br /> Resources in 1988. <br /> By 1986, though, actual water demand had outpaced th as 33% <br /> projections of the 1981 Task Force Report by whh drought <br /> for Hillsborough and OAWS. This demand, coupled <br /> conditions in 1985-86, led to a severe water crisis in <br /> central Orange County. In response, the Board of <br /> Commissioners convened two new committees tosdealY with <br /> thange <br /> long term issues of adequate drinking water <br /> County. The Reservoir Site Committee was charged with <br /> identifying the most feasible site for a new reser�o�itteet he <br /> County. The Long Range Water Management tStrategyiCo of how to <br /> dealt with management issues, not <br /> finance and manage a new reservoir but" how to best manage all • <br /> of Orange County's ra resources.Board reports <br /> ommissioners in <br /> committees were del <br /> November 1987. <br /> The Reservoir Site Committee' reviewed <br /> dcpast <br /> reservoirtsitehe • <br /> ious two d • <br /> studies done over the previous based on <br /> four most promising sites for further review,Committee basedeo also <br /> technical •and financial considerations. v <br /> examined the financial feasibility of transmitting water from <br /> Jordan: Lake. The Committee concluded that a reservoir on the <br /> 2.3 text 11 <br />