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REVISION AFTER FLASHBOARD <br />CONSTRUCTION <br />(ATTACHMENT III) <br />TABLE II <br />DROUGHT MANAGEMENT PLAN <br />ORANGE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA <br />WITHDRAWAL REDUCTIONS THROUGH CONSERVATION & WATER TRANSFER <br />(ASSUMES NO TRANSFER FROM MEBANE /GRAHAM /BURLINGTON) <br />water <br />usa e_ /1j.11uUdLlv11 <br />1J ilLti 1- `L "1171J� <br />Action <br />Percent <br />Elevation <br />Extent of <br />Target percent <br />Hillsborough <br />OWASA <br />Orange <br />Piedmont <br />Instream <br />Total <br />Stages <br />of <br />of water <br />conservation <br />reduction through <br />Alamance <br />Minerals <br />Flow <br />usable <br />below <br />conservation <br />storage <br />spillway <br />I.Normal <br />100% <br />FULL <br />None <br />None <br />1.80 <br />0.50 <br />0.80 <br />0.15 <br />1.10 <br />4.35 <br />(Below <br />normal <br />2.20 Lake <br />water) <br />Orange <br />II. Alert <br />80% <br />24" <br />Voluntary <br />10% through <br />1.60 <br />(A) <br />0.72 <br />0.13 <br />0.65 <br />3.1 <br />2.20 <br />voluntary <br />restrictions <br />III. Warning <br />70% <br />37" <br />Mandatory <br />15% through <br />1.53 <br />(A) <br />0.68 <br />0.12 <br />0.65 <br />2.98 <br />2.20 <br />mandatory <br />restrictions <br />0.39 <br />2. 72 <br />60% <br />52 " <br />IV. Danger <br />50% <br />70" <br />Severe <br />17% severe <br />1.50 <br />(A) <br />0.66 <br />0.12 <br />0.39 <br />2.67 <br />Mandatory <br />mandatory <br />restrictions <br />2.20 <br />V. Emergency <br />40% <br />89" <br />Stringent <br />24% stringent <br />1.37 <br />(A) <br />0.60 <br />0.11 <br />0 <br />2.08 <br />Mandatory <br />mandatory <br />restrictions <br />112" <br />Rationing <br />55% water <br />0.80 <br />(A) <br />0.36 <br />0.06 <br />0 <br />1.22 <br />VI. Crisis <br />30% <br />rationing <br />VII. Usable <br />10% <br />175" <br />Storage <br />(A) During ACTION STAGES II -VI of the Lake Orange Conservation Stages, OWASA shall be allocated up to 0.50 MGD, which may be withdrawn <br />as prescribed in this ordinance and as prescribed in any contract between OWASA and other water users named in this TABLE II. Any such <br />allocation shall only occur when the number of usable days of water remaining from all other water supply sources available to OWASA is less <br />than the number of usable days of water remaining in the water supply reservoirs of Lake Ben Johnston, Corporation Lake and Lake Orange <br />