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<br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: September 15, 2020 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 8-f <br /> <br />SUBJECT: City of Durham’s Teer Quarry Reservoir – Resolution of Support from Orange <br />County for Reclassifying a Segment of the Eno River for Water Supply in <br />Durham County <br /> <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning & Inspections <br /> <br /> <br />ATTACHMENTS: INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />1. City of Durham’s Request for Resolution of Craig Benedict, Planning Director, <br />Support from Orange County 919-245-2592 <br />2. Cost Estimate and Durham Statement Christopher Sandt, Staff Engineer, <br />of Cost Reimbursement to Orange County 919-245-2583 <br />3. Timeline for Teer Quarry Initiatives <br />4. Executed Resolution of Support from the Town <br />of Hillsborough <br />5. Draft Orange County Resolution of Support <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />PURPOSE: To consider approval and signature by the Board Chair of a Resolution of Support <br />from Orange County related to the City of Durham’s (City’s) proposed initiative to make the Teer <br />Quarry Reservoir a new public water supply and reclassifying a segment of the Eno River within <br />Durham County as Water Supply, in conformance with the State’s Water Supply Watershed <br />Protection Program. The City has formally requested Orange County’s support for this effort <br />which would require the County to take the necessary steps to provide public notice and initiate <br />the associated public hearing(s), Planning Board meeting(s) and Board of County <br />Commissioners (BOCC) meeting(s) to amend land use restrictions imposed by water supply <br />watershed protection rules for the affected areas within Orange County. <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: The City of Durham owns and operates the Teer Quarry Reservoir (Quarry), <br />an emergency water storage reservoir located along the Eno River in Durham County <br />approximately 0.80 miles to the east of US-501 and approximately 15 miles downriver from the <br />USGS Eno River at Hillsborough gauge (USGS Gauge #02085000). <br /> <br />Attachment 1 is a written request by Mr. Donald F. Greeley (Director, City of Durham <br />Department of Water Management) for Orange County to approve a Resolution of Support to <br />make the Teer Quarry Reservoir a new public water supply and reclassifying a segment of the <br />Eno River within Durham County as Water Supply, in conformance with the State’s Water <br />Supply Watershed Protection Program. <br /> <br />The City plans to convert the Quarry to a non-emergency source of water supply for the City <br />once the Quarry has been appropriately classified for drinking water purposes and approved by <br />1