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D~~aft #4 clew: (9/14/04) <br />STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA <br />COUNTY OF ORANGE <br />WARRANTY DEED CONVEYING <br />AGRICULTURAL. AND WATERSHED PROTECTION <br />CONSERVATION EASEMENT <br />11 <br />This Deed of Agricultural and Watershed Protection Conservation Easement <br />("Conservation Easement") is granted on this _ day of , 200_, by WILLIAM <br />EDGAR MCPHERSON, JR. (unmarried) and son WILLIAM MCPHERSON III (unmarried), <br />having an address of 3602 Mebane Oaks Road, Mebane, NC 27302 (referred to as "Grantors"), to <br />ORANGE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, having an address of Post Office Box 8181, <br />Hillsborough, NC 27278, and ORANGE WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY, having an <br />address of 400 Jones Ferry Road, Carrboro, NC 27510, (both together referred to herein as <br />"Grantee") <br />WHEREAS: <br />Grantors are the sole owners in fee simple, of certain farm Property, more pazticularly <br />described in Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein (the "Property"), which consists <br />of approximately 46,54 acres of land, located in Bingham Township, Orange County, North <br />Carolina and identified as " " on the plat of the Property titled..., <br />prepared by..., which plat is recorded at Plat Book ,Page ,Orange County Registry <br />(Orange County PIN 9822-44-3024). The Property includes buildings and other improvements, <br />The Property consists primarily ofproductive agricultural and forestland. The majority of <br />the soils on the Property have been classified as "prime" or "statewide important" soils by the <br />Natural Resources Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture, (also referred <br />to as "NRCS" or "the United States,") The Property is bisected by Toms Creek, which is a <br />tributary to the Cane Creek Reservoir, a public drinking water supply reservoir serving Orange <br />County, North Carolina. The Property is within the Cane Creek Protected Watershed. <br />