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1.4 WHEREAS, the Towns of Mebane and Graham have entered into a water sales agreement with Orange - Alamance which requires that Orange - Alamance abandon plans for developing the Haw Creek water supply and request the de- classification of the Haw Creek watershed as a protected water supply watershed so that it can be developed without the encumbrances entailed by watershed protection regulations, and which additionally requires that Orange - Alamance use its entire Capacity Use Agreement raw water withdrawal allocation from the Eno River prior to obtaining water from either the Mebane or Graham water systems; and WHEREAS, the Haw Creek watershed remains a viable alternative for development of a water supply for Orange County, the Town of Hillsborough, the Orange - Alamance Water System or another water purveyor who could employ Haw Creek water supplies to provide water to western Orange County and compensate for the loss of water from the Eno Basin to the Haw Basin resulting from Orange- Alamance's use of water from the Eno to supply its customers in Alamance County; NOW, BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the Orange County Board of Commissioners opposes the de- classification of the Haw Creek watershed. strongly supports the Town of Hillsborough in its opposition to the declassification of the Haw Creek Reservoir and requests that the NC Environmental Management Commission decline the petition to de- classify the Haw Creek watershed and; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Orange County Board of Commissioners request that the "NC Division of Environmental Management classify the Haw Creek watershed with the highest watershed classification supported by the current land use in the-watershed unless and until another water supply in the Haw River basin can be developed to compensate for the interbasin transfer of waters from the Eno Basin during times of low flow in the Eno Basin.