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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE MORGAN CREEK VALLEY ALLIANCE <br />WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of Commissioners has established protecting the <br />County 'a major watercourses and water supply watersheds as a high snarly, and <br />WHEREAS, the Morgan Creek valley forms the Unlversiry Lake watershed, as it courses <br />through southern Orange County, Carbi Chapel Hill, and eventually Into Jordan Lake, <br />and <br />WHEREAS, the Morgan Creek Valley includes scenic, cultural, recreational, water supply <br />and wildlife msources Including rare and valuable micro ecosystems, and <br />WHEREAS, the County owns land along tributaries of Morgan Creek, and has planning and <br />zoning authority over a significant portion of its valley, and <br />WHEREAS, the County has already taken signifcant steps over the years to protect the <br />important and sensitive ecology of Morgan Creek though planning and the implementation of <br />watershed protection standards that exceed State minimum miss, and <br />WHEREAS, the newly formed Morgan Creek Valley Alliance seeks to conserve the natural <br />and cultural heritage and ecological integrity of the region and to prated the water quality of <br />the Morgan Creek Valley through increasing. public awareness, cooperation and broad <br />participation, and <br />WHEREAS, the Alliance is voluntary cooperative effort which in its initial stages has <br />included broad participation from property owners along the creek, the N.C. Botanical <br />Gallen (through which it flows), the. Chapel HIII Museum, the Towns of Carrbcro and Chapel <br />Hill, Orange County, OWASA, UNO-Chapel Hill, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Triangle <br />Lend Conservancy, and others <br />: <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />hereby welcomes the establishment and supports the mission of the Morgan Creek Valley <br />Alliance to conserve Morgan Creek through public education, cooperation and coordination <br />of public and private parties, and voluntary conservation efforts to protect the natural and <br />cultural heritage and to protect the water quality. <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Orange County Board of Commissioners encourages <br />the Alliance to pursue its broad based strategy with maximum involvement of the public in the <br />interest of protecting one of our most valuable resources. <br />This, the 5" day of February, 2002. <br />Ban Jacobs, Chair <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />ATTEST: <br />Beverly Blythe, Clerk to the Board