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<br />Res. #_RES-2020-056__ <br /> <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />Resolution of Support for Reclassifying a Segment of the Eno River for Water Supply in <br />Durham County, North Carolina <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the City of Durham owns Teer Quarry located at 5090 Denfield Road in Durham County, <br />adjacent to the Eno River; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Teer Quarry is critical for meeting the City’s emergency water supply needs and will <br />improve the City’s water system reliability; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Orange County has an allocation of water supply storage in Jordan Lake with the <br />expectation that the City of Durham’s water supply system will serve a portion of Orange County with <br />water from Orange County’s Jordan Lake water supply allocation; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the City of Durham is at the center of an interconnected, regional water supply network <br />that includes the Town of Hillsborough, the Orange Water and Sewer Authority, Chatham County, the <br />City of Raleigh, and the Town of Cary; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, improving the City of Durham’s water supply reliability improves water supply reliability <br />for the Town of Hillsborough, the Orange Water and Sewer Authority, and Orange County; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, use of Teer Quarry as a water supply requires filling it from a new intake in the Eno <br />River; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the North Carolina General Statutes require that the segment of the Eno River in which <br />the new intake is located and its watershed, as well as Teer Quarry, be reclassified to protect the <br />quality of the water; <br /> <br />NOW, THEREFORE, we, the Orange County Board of Commissioners hereby resolves to support the <br />reclassification of the lands and waters identified by the North Carolina Department of Environmental <br />Quality as being within the new Eno River intake watershed to WS-IV NSW with a Critical Area (CA) <br />and Protected Area (PA), and Teer Quarry to WSIV NSW CA. <br /> <br />This 15th day of September, 2020. <br /> <br />Attest: <br /> <br /> <br />__________________________________ ________________________________ <br />David Hunt, Deputy Clerk to the Board Penny Rich, Chair <br /> Orange County Board of Commissioners <br /> <br />Attachment 5 14