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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 25, 1991 <br />SUBJECT:TJCOG Water Quality <br />Monitoring Project <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No.._ <br />PUBLIC HEARING YES: NO: X <br />ATTACEMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: County Engineer <br />Amendment to Interlocal Agreement Paul Thames <br />w /attachments TELEPHONE NUMBER - <br />Hillsborough - 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill - 968 -4501 <br />Mebane - 227 -2031 <br />Durham - 688 -7331 <br />PURPOSE: To present to the BOCC, for its approval and ratification, a <br />resolution for amending and extending the existing Interlocal <br />Agreement governing the Triangle J Council of Government's <br />project for monitoring the water quality of the region's water <br />supply. <br />BACKGROUND: In 1988, Orange County, along with many other local <br />governments, contracted with the Triangle J Council of <br />Governments and the US Geological Survey to conduct a three <br />year project for the sampling and monitoring of the region's <br />water supplies to determine the existing water quality of <br />those supplies. A second primary function of the project was <br />to develop a water quality data baseline which could be used <br />to determine the degree of degradation of water quality which <br />could be anticipated to occur as a result of increasingly <br />dense land use and population growth in the region. <br />The first three years of the project will be completed in <br />October, 1991. Much water quality data has been gathered and <br />analyzed, and existing water quality has generally be found to <br />be of a quality that is higher than anticipated. However, <br />there is still much to be learned about the quality of the <br />region's water supplies and the sources of water quality <br />impacts. The steering committee which oversees the water <br />quality monitoring project has recommended that the project be <br />extended for an additional four year period in order to obtain <br />and analyze additional data. To extend the project, all <br />existing participants must be willing to amend the existing <br />interlocal agreement which governs the funding of the project. <br />