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~-a <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Board of Directors <br />THROUGH: Ed Kerwin <br />FROM: Ed Holland <br />DATE: September 15, 2004 <br />SUBJECT: Proposal to Allow State-Controlled Hunting on OWASA's 500-acre <br /> "Mitigation Tract" <br />BackLround <br />Permission to build the Cane Creek Reservoir was obtained from the United States Army <br />Corps of Engineers (Corps) through a "Section 404" Permit issued to OWASA in 1981, <br />The 404 Permit contained a number of provisions and requirements governing the <br />reservoir's construction and operation, .Among these was the condition that OWASA <br />obtain and set aside 500 acres of land to mitigate the loss of wildlife habitat that the <br />reservoir's impoundment would cause, The so-called "Mitigation Tract" (please see the <br />attached map) was obtained for that purpose, Regulatory responsibility for this portion of <br />the permit was administered through the U.S, Fish and Wildlife Service and the North <br />Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (WRC). <br />Although written correspondence with the WRC in 1980 implied that the Mitigation <br />Tract would be open for public hunting, this condition was not included in the actual 404 <br />Permit issued by the Corps, The permit did, however, require that the Cane Creek <br />Reservoir itself be open to the public for fishing and hunting. OWASA has always <br />provided public boating and fishing opportunities at the reservoir, but has enforced a no- <br />huntingpolicy at Cane Creek and all other OWASA-owned land, including the <br />Mitigation Tract, <br />Recent Activities <br />Despite this prohibition and the posting of all boundazies, the Mitigation Tract has been <br />subject to a significant amount of unmanaged hunting, littering, and trespassing, <br />including off-road vehicle use, which OWASA field staff have been unable to control <br />with any consistency. Correspondence in 2003 from the Corps of Engineers and WRC <br />suggested that OWASA was not meeting the requirement to provide for public hunting <br />and fishing at the reservoir, <br />
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