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UNIFORM JOINT RESOLUTION ON THE PROTECTION OF FALLS AND JORDAN WATERSHEDS WHEREAS, the Falls and Jordan Reservoirs represent a combined public investment of over $305 million with estimated benefits for such uses as recreatiOn, water supply, and flood control totalling $22 million each year; and WHEREAS, the addition of phosphorus, sediment, metals, toxics and other pollutants will seriously affect the quality of the Reservoirs for their intended public uses; and WHEREAS, the sources of these pollutants are wastewater treatment facilities, stormwater runoff, and urban and rural erosion from land in each respective watershed; and WHEREAS, the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community Development (NRCD) has the authority and responsibility to regulate water quality from point sources such as wastewater treatment facilities and local governments have the authority and responsibility to regulate activities which affect the health, safety and welfare of citizens within their jurisdictions; and WHEREAS, the Environmental Management Commission of NRCD has adopted water quality classifications for the reservoirs to protect the waters for water supply, recreation, and other uses, and has designated the reservoilis as Nutrient Sensitive Waters for phosphorous control; and WHEREAS, the timing and degree of phosphorus removal required for wastewater treatment facilities in the watersheds can be affected by the actions of local governments to reduce phosphorus from other sources; and WHEREAS, the control q phosphorus through stormwater or nonpoint source management can protectfthe Reservoirs from other pollutants such as sediment,Imetals, and toxics; and WHEREAS, local governments have been working through the Falls/Jordan Watershed Steering Committee to develop a plan of action based on a partnership between local and state governments to protect the water quality in general of the Reservoirs; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the NRCD states its strong support of the State/Local Action Agenda for the Falls and Jordan Watersheds as attached, and further states its committment to implement • those actions specified as State Action; ]