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10. Given an ability to transfer impervious surface potential as described above, the City or Durham and Durham County would support the multiple classification of the Falls Reservoir watershed, as follows: WS-HI for the portions of the watershed including and below the Lick Creek tributary and WS-1V for the portions of the watershed above the Lick Creek tributary. This is based on an assumption that 1) the transfer of "10 percent at 70 percent" impervious surfaces is permitted as described above, and 2) Wake County would be willing to transfer approximately half of its "10 percent at 70 percent" impervious surface to Durham County in order to address Durham's concerns about compatibility with adopted land use plans. 11. The City of Durham and Durham County support the proposed WS-1V and B classifications for the Eno liver watershed. However, the City and County encourage the Environmental Management Commission to consider changes to the rules for WS-1V run -0f - -river water supplies to emphasize stream buffers, spill control and discharge limitations rather than land -based density controls. In the future, the City's emergency water supply on the Eno River may become a valuable, permanent water supply source. Consequently, the watershed protection upstream of this point is important and the City and County support this general intent. However, this is a run-of-river water supply intake supplemented by other water supply sources. The intake can be closed after a storm event so that the first flush of pollutants have an opportunity to flow past the intake. Therefore, the density and impervious surface restrictions in this type of watershed are not as important as stream buffers, spill control and discharge limitations in protecting the water quality. This 31st day of October , 1991. APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL OCT 31 1991 CITY,�ERK 4 IN