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Issues for Possible Comment If the County chooses to provide comments to the DWQ prior to May 31 deadline, there are a number of different areas and topics within which it could do so. The following list of possible issues far comment is taken in large part from the Upper New Hope Arm Work Group (Attachment 3) and resolutions in support of the DWQ proposal from Citizens far Clean Water and Haw River Assembly (Attachment 4): 1, Comprehensive, Coordinated Protection of Water Quality for Jordan Lake While elementary in nature, both the utility providers and the citizen groups share an interest in the NCDWQ.,.that of implementing measures that will help protect Jordan Lake, whether the NCDWQ proposal or some modified approach as suggested by the Upper New Hope Arm jurisdictions. As noted by the Citizens for Clean Water resolution on Jordan Lake Reservoir, protection of the lake's water will need to be coordinated and regional in scope in order to be effective, A general statement of support far new and specific measures to protect the water quality would be common ground held by all parties, and an important note to retain sight of. 2. Adaptive Management and Further Research. The Upper New Hope Arm Work Group has noted that an adaptive management approach to the Jordan Lake TMDL and strategy might be prudent, given questions about the modeling to date and a perceived need for additional data about the lake and its current and projected future water quality. For example, enhanced water quality modeling has been proposed over afour-year period to complement previous work and examine and validate findings related to nutrients, carbon, chlorophyll a and other algal parameters, Following the four- yearmodeling, the local governments might fund cone-year project to update and enhance the Jordan Lake Nutrient Response Model -evaluating the reduction targets and calibrating the model to include the extra years or water monitoring, The recalibrated and updated model would then be used to analyze and potentially modify the nutrient reduction targets proposed by NCDWQ. 3. Agricultural Rules Implementation To date, the involvement of the agricultural community in the .Jordan Lake rules has been minimal, despite efforts to engage different groups as part of the .Jordan Lake Stakeholders Group, Substantial efforts to explain and inform agricultural organizations might be wise prior to the implementation of the new rules - so that meaningful comment can be solicited and received prior to implementation.