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4 ' <br />DQGIff� <br />long -term water - supply arrangements? <br />2. How should the Town of Hillsborough's request to purchase or <br />lease part of OWASA's 16" water line north of the Rural Buffer be <br />resolved? - <br />3. Regarding existing communities with well and septic systems: <br />(a) Is OWASA responsible for serving these neighborhoods <br />in the Chapel Hill and Carrboro town limits and future <br />annexation areas? <br />(b) Should OWASA also be responsible for extending water <br />and sewer service to communities with well and septic <br />systems in the Rural Huffer to the north and south of the <br />Towns? <br />4. What should OWASA's water and sewer service area be? <br />5. What should OWASA's long -range role be in providing water in <br />Orange County, including potential assistance to the Town of <br />Hillsborough and other Orange County areas? <br />6. Should OWASA have a jointly - developed water /sewer master plan <br />addressing questions of service area, long -term system development, <br />service level objectives, financing, etc.? <br />C. WATER SUPPLY SOURCES FOR OWASA <br />1. Should OWASA use water from the Jordan Lake in the future for <br />its customers in the Chapel Hill- Carrboro area? If not, what steps <br />should be taken to preclude any necessity to use the Jordan as a <br />water source for Chapel Hill and Carrboro in the future? <br />2. Should OWASA sell Jordan Lake water to other areas? <br />3. Should OWASA - plan - to -use thd-.Jordan Lake water supply on a <br />cooperative basis -with other utilities? <br />4. How do the Orange Alamance Water System, Orange County and the <br />Town of Hillsborough plan to use their allocations from the Jordan? <br />D. EFFECT OF OWASA FEES AND CHARGES ON HOUSING COSTS <br />1. Should OWASA be responsible for extending water and sewer at a <br />reasonable cost to neighborhoods which now have wells and septic <br />systems? <br />2. What techniques, if any, could OWASA use to reduce the effect of <br />its availability charges, assessments, and other rates and fees on <br />low income families? <br />