Agenda - 06-06-2017 - 8-e - Request for Funding Assistance - Eno River Association Clean Water Management Trust Fund Applications

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8 protection of the property, committed funding from Orange County by June 30, 2017 will add points to the project's application score with the Clean Water, potentially lifting the project over the cutoff for funded projects. The Trust Fund has applications in this cycle for$65 million in projects and anticipates available funds to be around $25 million. Funding Summary Purchase Price $350,000 22.6 acres Additional 19-acre donated easement Survey(estimated) $8,000 purchase and donated easement Legal $1,500 purchase and donated easement Stewardship Funding $18,390 purchase and donated easement Total Project Cost $377,890 Grant Funding Requests Purpose Status acquisition,purchase survey,legal and Approved closing,and stewardship endowment for City of Raleigh(UNCWI) $97,095 purchase Orange County $121,200 acquisition CWMTF $138,250 acquisition Applied for;Decision expected Sept 2017 donation survey,stewardship endowment Triange Community Foundation $21,345 for donation,and staff time for donation Applied for;Decision expected in June Total All Funding Sources $377,890 Project Significance The 22.66 acres to be purchased lies on the northeast side of the East Fork Eno River. The Eno River Association owns 180 acres directly across the river, known as the Confluence Natural Area. Orange County holds a conservation easement on 100 acres of the Association's Confluence property, as well as two conservation easements just downstream of this project. The 19-acre easement donation area lies on both sides of the East Fork Eno River, and stretches nearly all the way upstream to Lake Orange. It will include the 100-year flood plain on both sides of the river. The addition of this project will expand water quality and habitat protection on the East Fork of the river: • Fee purchase linear stream frontage: • 800-ft on East Fork Eno River(1 side of the river (north side): avg. 900-ft width) • Donated easement linear stream frontage: • 3,000-ft on East Fork Eno River (both sides of river: average 100-ft width) • 700-ft on tributary stream (both sides of stream: average 150-ft width) • The East Fork Eno River is classified as by DWR as Water Supply II, High Quality Waters, Nutrient Sensitive Waters and as Drinking Water Assessment Area Susceptibility- Higher • The East Fork Eno River frontage on the property is a Natural Heritage Program NEU/ Eno River Aquatic Habitat with Element Occurrences of Villosa constricta and Strophitus undulatus • There are three acres of wetlands on the property which have been called "unique" by the NC Natural Heritage Program (verbal report -waiting for the written report) Eno River Association The Eno River Association is a nationally accredited land trust which has protected more than 7,130 acres along the Eno and its tributary streams in Orange and Durham counties. The 2