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ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agenda <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Item No.A=-A <br /> Meeting Date: September 3, 1991 <br /> SUBJECT: Report and mapping of <br /> acquifer yields and soil <br /> suitability in Orange County <br /> DEPARTMENT:-Planning and Health -PUBLIC-HEARING- YES:-----NO:-x-- <br /> ES. -- - _ X-- <br /> ------------------ -------------------- - - -- <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT:- -- - -- <br /> Soils-Jerry Stinson, Health <br /> Report on Acquifers Acquifers-David Stancil, Planning <br /> Report on Soils (Under Separate TELEPHONE NUMBER- <br /> Cover) Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> Mebane - 227--2031 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> - <br /> PURPOSE: To present two reports and associated mapping to-the Board in <br /> compliance with that part of the Commissioner's goal on water <br /> resource protection dealing with collection of data on the <br /> County's acquifer or groundwater yields and the assimilative <br /> capacity of County soils for on-site sanitary waste water <br /> disposal. <br /> BACKGROUND: County Staff have outlined process for achieving the <br /> Commissioner's a goal for overall protection of the County's <br /> water resources which involves the collection of data on the <br /> County's existing water resources. These resources include <br /> the availability of drinking water quality ground waters which <br /> is contained in the Counties acquifers and the capacity of the <br /> soils present in the County to absorb, in an environmentally <br /> safe manner, land-applied sanitary waste water from on-site <br /> waste treatment systems. <br /> There is a large body of information available on the subject <br /> of drinking water yields of the County's acquifers, though the <br /> information applies more generally to the state's large <br /> surface water drainage basins than to Orange County. <br /> Although the information regarding the situation in orange <br /> County can be culled from the larger body of information, the <br /> process is time consuming and is further complicated by the <br /> fact that the sources of information are widely dispersed <br /> among state and federal environmental agencies and university <br /> environmental research departments. A map and a report on the <br /> ground water yields of the Orange County portion of the Cape <br /> Fear Basin was presented to the Rural Character Study Group by <br /> the Planning Department in October, 1990. The information to <br /> be presented to the Board of Commissioners on the Cape Fear <br />