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- - - - . . . . .. ' v " "" <br /> • 1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY 85 <br /> BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSION ZRS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRA6T <br /> Meeting Date: March 19 , 2002. <br /> Action Ages <br /> Item No . I mce <br /> SUBJECT , Propo5ed Joint Grant Application to NC Clean Water Management Trust Fund <br /> — Upper Eno Watershed Protection - - <br /> DEPARTMENT : Environment and Resource PUBUC HEARING : (YIN ) No <br /> Conservation <br /> ATTACHMENT ( B ) : INFORMATION CONTACT : <br /> Concept Proposal for Grant Appllcatinn David Stancil , 245 - 2590 <br /> CWMTF Grant Evaluation Guidelines Rich Share , 245 =2591 <br /> Map of upper Ergo Watershed <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS : <br /> Hi11119boroush 732 -81 $ 1 <br /> Chapel Hill 9684501 <br /> Durham 8884331 <br /> Mebane 336 =227 -2031 <br /> PURPOSE : To consider submitting a joint grant application with the Eno River <br /> Association to the North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund ( CWMTF ) for <br /> voluntary protection of high priority resource lands in the Upper Eno Watershed . <br /> SAC KGRO UND : In the fall of 2001 , ERCD etaff and representatives from the Eno Neer <br /> Association ( ERA ) informally discussed a proposal to submit a joint ounty� ERA <br /> application for funds from the NC Clean Wafer Management Trust Fund to acquire land <br /> ( riparian buffers ) and conservation easements In the Upper Eno watershed . <br /> The objective would be to further protect water quality and wildlife habitat in the critical <br /> area of the Upper Eno Protected Watershed . Conserving these lands will help ensure the <br /> long -term viability of the Eno River as a public water supply and high - quality habitat for <br /> aquatic organisms and o# her wildlife that exist within than riparian corridor . A secondary <br /> purpose is to protect known and potential arohaeo log i l sites ( hlstorin and prehistoric) <br /> that area likely to exist within this corridor. <br /> The proposed applicadon would build upon prior Count} efforts for watershed protection , <br /> as well as a previous CW MTF grant to the Eno Raver Associatioun for identifioatiob and <br /> prioritization of npanan lands within the Upper Eno 4 atarshed . That project resulated in an <br /> Eno River fiparfara Coldor Gcurserva #fors Des'far (August000 ) preparl by � ietirrnt <br /> Planning Associates , One of the purposes of the OWMTF grant was to assist in the <br /> selection of future projacts for funding within that watershed , <br />