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P <br /> T <br /> 7 <br /> groundwater on a comprehensive scale. Certainly, the <br /> depletion of this critical resource is and will continue to <br /> be affected by development across the Piedmont, and the <br /> nation as well. <br /> On a local scale however, the overall low-density in the <br /> Rural Buffer should ensure groundwater supplies are not <br /> unduly depleted. As mentioned earlier, this is more <br /> problematic when dealing with the areas in Triassic soils in <br /> the Southern Triangle and Erwin Road. However, since many of <br /> these areas are not developable, effects should be minimal. <br /> For the remainder of the buffer, even the most-dense <br /> development option (the Rural village) is less than one unit <br /> per acre. Based on calculations from available sources, this <br /> would mean that, for any given square mile in the New Hope <br /> basin (outside of the Triassic "corner" ) , maximum consumption <br /> would be less than 50% of the available groundwater supply on <br /> a per day average. <br /> Further evaluation into groundwater availability across the <br /> County is being pursued by staff. With further work, it may <br /> be possible to more definitively evaluate availability and <br /> potential for pollution_of our groundwater resources . <br /> SOURCES: <br /> Telephone Conversations with Groundwater Specialists, North <br /> Carolina Division of Environmental Management, Groundwater <br /> and Water Resources Sections, November 1989, October 1990 . <br /> Groundwater Su 1 Potential and Procedures for Well-Site <br /> Se ecti U er Cg­ Fear, Cape Fear Basin Study, 1983 . <br /> An A aisal of the Groundwater Resources of the Upper Ca e <br /> Fear Basin Groundwater Bu letin Number <br /> Survey, 1974. 20, U.S. Geological <br /> Statisti a 1 Ana sis Relatin We11 Yield to Co st uction <br /> P acti e a ad Siti of Wells in the Piedmont and B ue Rid e <br /> P ovinces o Nor h Carolina, U.S. Geological Survey and State <br /> of North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and <br /> Community Development, 1987 . <br /> Related Work by Milton Heath, Institute of Government, 1980. <br /> pds/101790/dsll <br /> 3 <br />