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13 <br /> <br /> Development Manager, has been present at all Jordan Lake Partnership meetings as <br />the TWSP MOA has been in formulation. Ms. Rouse is thoroughly familiar with and in <br />support of the agreement and made the TWSP MOA approval recommendation to the <br />OWASA Board. Ms. Rouse has offered her full support to Orange County staff in <br />facilitating Orange County becoming a member of the TWSP and is a proponent of <br />Orange County joining. <br /> <br />The agreement which created the Jordan Lake Partnership expires next year. The Triangle <br />Water Supply Partnership (TWSP) is proposed as the successor to that partnership, to continue <br />providing a forum for coordination and collaboration for sustainable water supplies for the <br />region and provide an opportunity for other regional utilities to join. The Parties (Participants) <br />have negotiated a new Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) defining the terms of this regional <br />effort (Attachment 1), which is presented for the Board’s consideration. <br /> <br />Jordan Lake is the water supply for Cary, Morrisville, Research Triangle Park (RTP) south, <br />Apex and Chatham County. Communities in Wake, Durham, Orange and Chatham counties <br />also have Jordan Lake allocations for future water supplies. Orange County was recently <br />approved for a 1.5% allocation of the lake’s water supply by the North Carolina Department of <br />Environmental Quality. <br /> <br />The Jordan Lake Partnership (JLP) is one of the best examples of regional cooperation to meet <br />Orange County’s commitment to ensure economic self-sufficiency and high-quality, safe, <br />affordable, and reliable water services to meet the needs of residents and support continued <br />growth. Orange County has been a JLP partner since 2009. The JLP has served as a forum for <br />coordination and support during the state’s most-recent round of Jordan Lake water supply <br />allocations. <br /> <br />Over the past nine years, the JLP has helped the County and its partners obtain new Jordan <br />Lake water supply allocations from the State to meet anticipated future needs, created a 50- <br />year regional water supply plan, developed a comprehensive hydraulic model of the region’s <br />water systems and interconnections, and revised Jordan Lake drought contingency planning. <br />Joining Orange County in the JLP were Apex, Cary, Chatham County, Durham, Hillsborough, <br />Holly Springs, Morrisville, Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA), Pittsboro, Raleigh, <br />Sanford and Wake County. The JLP was awarded the 2014 Outstanding Planning Award by the <br />American Planning Association’s North Carolina chapter and the 2015 Major Metro <br />Achievement Award by the National Association of Regional Councils, as a model for effective <br />collaboration between local governments. <br /> <br />The agreement that created the Jordan Lake Partnership expires in 2019. Because the JLP has <br />been a uniquely effective forum for regional water supply planning and water system <br />coordination, the JLP members desire to continue the working relationship. Wake County, <br />which transferred its Jordan Lake water supply allocation for RTP south to Cary in 2017, will not <br />continue in the JLP/TWSP. <br /> <br />The Participants propose to continue as a forum for regional coordination and collaboration for <br />sustainable water supplies under the name Triangle Water Supply Partnership (TWSP). <br />Proposed participants are shown in Attachment 2. The name change reflects the regional <br />coalition with the addition of Johnston County and Harnett County who, while completely <br />integrated in the Triangle planning region, draw their water supplies from outside the Jordan