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Orange County Comprehensive Plan <br />Principles, Goals and Objectives <br />Objective WR-4: <br />Coordinate possible nutrient trading and stormwater credits between the towns and County, <br />including possible stream buffer acquisition or other land conservation approaches. <br />Objective WR-5: <br />Promote and participate in regional efforts to plan for use of water supplies in the region in an <br />equitable manner, including contingency planning for water supplies during droughts. (See also <br />Water and Wastewater Objective WW-5.) <br />Objective WR-6: <br />Ensure greater coordination among County agencies on water resources, including cooperative <br />efforts to prevent surface and ground water pollution by addressing failing septic systems and <br />wells. (See also Water and Wastewater Objective WW-19.) <br />Objective WR-7: <br />Promote land use patterns that preserve the natural hydrologic system and maintain a <br />sustainable “carrying capacity” balance for the future between ground water and surface water <br />resources (See also Land Use Objective LU-2.9.) <br />Objective WR-8: <br />Ensure that sufficient water resources are available for farms. <br />Objective WR-9: <br />Encourage and participate in efforts by the state and other regional jurisdictions to address the <br />future use of Jordan Lake as a water supply, in a manner that links sustainable growth to future <br />water allocation. <br />Objective WR-10: <br />Establish a county network of ground and surface monitoring wells to assist in water resources <br />planning and drought monitoring. <br />Objective WR-11: <br />Provide incentives and educational information to landowners to increase protection of <br />watersheds and ground water supplies and their inter-relationships. <br />Objective WR-12: <br />Prepare a new Orange County Water Supply Study, and make updated supply and demand <br />projections that can be used to inform future decision-making. <br />Objective WR-13: <br />Create a mechanism for intergovernmental coordination of water resources, calculating a <br />comprehensive County “water budget” approach. <br />Objective WR-14: <br />Use the new Water Supply Study (WR-11) and the State’s Neuse River Basin model (2009-10) to <br />evaluate the Upper Eno Watershed and its optimal protection measures. <br />Objective WR-15: <br />Conduct cooperative research on ground and surface water quality, working with other partners <br />in the County and adjoining jurisdictions to address water quality problems such as radon. (See <br />also Air and Energy Objective AE-5.) <br />Objective WR-16: <br />Conduct additional research on well yields and wellhead protection to determine if more reliable <br />information on well yields and wellhead protection areas can be discerned with available <br />technology. <br />Objective WR-17: <br />40