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ORANGE WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY <br />OWASA <br />A public, non-profit agency providing water, sewer and reclaimed water services <br />to the Carrboro- Chapel Hill community. <br />July 20, 2015 <br />Dear Neighbor: <br />RE: UPDATE ON FORESTRY MANAGEMENT WORK AT OWASA'S 491 -ACRE CANE <br />CREEK RESERVOIR MITIGATION PROPERTY NEAR BUCKHORN ROAD <br />Thank you for your patience as OWASA implemented its Forest Management Plan (Plan) on its Cane <br />Creek Reservoir Mitigation Tract. Work for the most recent phase of the Plan has been completed. We <br />will continue to do small forestry management projects on the tract in accordance with the Plan and <br />recommendations from the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. Future work includes: <br />Replanting cleared pine areas — Our forestry contractor is evaluating the natural regeneration in <br />the small cleared pine areas this summer and fall. If needed, we will replant these sites with <br />shortleaf pine next winter. The replanting will be completed by hand and should have minimal <br />impacts to neighbors. <br />Pre - commercial thinning — The 25 acre area we cleared in 2010 and replanted with loblolly pine <br />in 2011 will be thinned in the next year or two. This thinning will be completed with brush <br />saws, and may take a couple weeks to complete. The trees that are cut will be left on site to filter <br />pollutants and return organic matter to the soil. There may be some noise impacts while this <br />work is being done. <br />We will continue to keep you informed about our forestry management activities and will notify you <br />before we begin the activities described above. If you did not receive e -mail notification (with this same <br />letter attached) but prefer to receive information by e -mail, please send me an e -mail (see below) and I <br />will add your name to our e -mail distribution list. <br />If you prefer not to be contacted about our activities at this site, please notify me and I will remove your <br />name from our list. <br />Please contact me at 919 -537 -4214 or at rrouseaowasa.or if you have any questions or would like <br />more information regarding our forestry management activities at the Cane Creek Reservoir Mitigation <br />Tract. <br />Thank you very much. <br />Sincerely, <br />Ruth C. Rouse, AICP <br />OWASA Planning and Development Manager <br />400 Jones Ferry Road Equal Opportunity Employer Voice (919) 968 -4421 <br />Carrboro, NC 27510 -2001 Printed on Recycled Paper uvuvuv.ou- asa.org <br />