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At~~chrrnn~t 3 <br />JORDAN L.AKL^ UPPER NEW HOPE ARM WORK GROUP ~~ <br />(draft) Master List of Reaolnlnendations <br />forthe DWQ Proposed <br />Jordan Lake TMDL and Nutrient Management Strategy <br />May 10, 2005 <br />Worlc Group Members <br />Town of Carrboro (NPS) <br />Town of Cary (NPS) <br />Town of Chapel Hill (NPS) <br />Chathan7 County (NPS) <br />City of Durham (PS) <br />City of Durham (NPS) <br />Durham County (PS) <br />Durham County (NPS) <br />Town of Morrisville (NPS) <br />Orange County (NPS) <br />Orange Water and Sewer Authority (PS) <br />Walce County (NPS) <br />The following recommendations are based ou: <br />• the B. Everett Jor°dma Reservoir, North Carolina Nutrient Management Strategy and <br />Total Maximuna Daily Load (Public Review Draft, Apri12005) and the Proposed <br />Nonpoint Source Nutrient Strategy for Jor°dan Lalce Nutrient Sensitive YYaters contained <br />in Appendix V of that report, and <br />• comments from commissioners at the EMC Water Quality Committee meeting on March <br />9, 2005. <br />The recommendations are intended far each of the local govermnent members of the Work <br />Group to use in preparing its awn set of recommendations to be submitted to the Division of <br />Water Quality and the Environmental Management Conunission. By using this list of <br />recommendations, the various recommendations submitted by the local governments are more <br />likely to be consistent with each other. Each local goverrunent may adopt any part of any <br />reconunendation in this list. <br />Context: <br />1. Jordan Lake is a man made reservoir in the Piedmont Region of North Carolina. As such, <br />the lake is shallow and the retention time in the New Hope Arm of the lake is very long <br />(over 400 days), conditions ideal for growing algae. Before the lake was impounded, <br />water quality modeling predicted that Jordan Lake would be euh'ophic. <br />2. Jurisdictions in the Upper New Hope Arm Subwatershed of .lordan Lake have been <br />implementing measures to protect the water quality of,Tordaii Lalce, including stringent <br />land use controls and advanced wastewater treahnent, since the early 1980s. The <br />measures implemented by local governments have reduced the amount of nutrients and <br />sediment exported by development occun-ing within their jurisdictions, and have steadily <br />