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a~ <br />rORDAN LAKE UPPER NEW HOPE ARM WORK GROUP <br />(draft) Master List of Existing Local Provisions <br />for Nutrient Management <br />May 17, 2005 <br />Worlc Group Members <br />Town of Cazrboro (NPS) <br />Town of Cary (NPS) <br />Town of Chapel Hill (NPS) <br />Chatham County (NPS) <br />City of Durham (PS) <br />City of Durham (NPS) <br />Durhazn County (PS) <br />Durham County (NPS) <br />Town of Morrisville (NPS) <br />Orange County (NPS) <br />Orange Water and Sewer Authority (PS) <br />Wake County (NPS) <br />This document sununarizes some of the existing local government nutrient management controls <br />in the Upper New Hope Arm Subwatershed of Tardan Lake. This summary is intended for each <br />of the local government members of the Work Group to use in preparing its own set of <br />recommendations to be submitted to the Division of Water Quality and the Environmental <br />Mazragement Cotrunission. Any mention of the proposed Nonpoint Souuce Nutrient Management <br />Strategy refers to the Prroposed Nonpoint SozA°ce Nutrient Strategy for Jor•dazz La1re Nutrient <br />Sensitive Waters contained in Appendix V of the B. Everett Jordmz Resez°voir, North Carolina <br />Nutrient Management Strategy and Total Ma~-izzzuzrz Daily Load (Public Review Draft, April <br />?005). <br />The local governments in the Upper New Hope Arrn Subwatershed are already implementing <br />many components of the proposed Nutrient Management Strategy for .Jordan Lake. The <br />following examples provide a summary of some of those local efforts. <br />Stormwater Management for Existing Development <br />The proposed Nonpoint Source Nutrient Management Strategy component of greatest concern is <br />the Stormwater Rule for Existing Development, In short, local govenmzents would be required to <br />install storznwater BMPs to reduce the nutrients exported from existing developed land such that <br />those developed areas would be exporting nutrients at the rates of 4.1 Ibs/acre-yeaz- of TN and 1 1 <br />lbs/acre-year of TP, or less, <br />The following items summarize local govermnent measures to reduce the water quality impacts <br />of existing development. These local government efforts have resulted in measrzrable <br />