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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: August 29, 200.5 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 1 <br />SUBJECT: Stillhouse Creek Stream Restoration Project Update <br />DEPARTMENT: NRCS/Soil & Water, ERCD PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTAGHMENT <br />1. Memo re Stream Restoration Project <br />2. Vicinity Map <br />3, Map of Project Area (to be provided at meeting) <br />4. Picture of Stillhouse Creek <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Brent Bogue, 245-2750 <br />David Stancil, 245-2590 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To review an upcoming stream restoration project on a segment of Stillhouse <br />Creek in Hillsborough, to be conducted by the N,C. Ecosystem Enhancement Program and <br />overseen by the Orange Soil and Water District/NRCS office. <br />BACKGROUND: On September 2, 2003, the Board approved participation in a stream <br />restoration project far a segment of Stillhouse Creek between Margaret Lane and the Eno <br />River, on County lands behind the Government Services Center, In the last 20 years, this <br />stream corridor has become significantly degraded by erosion to the point where the stream <br />is approaching the Government Services Center building and the stream banks have become <br />steep. <br />Because of turnovers in project oversight (EEP moved from NCDOT to NCDENR in 2004), <br />EEP staff and budgetary considerations, the project's design and construction drawings were <br />not completed until June of this year. However, the project is now ready to be placed for <br />construction bid by the EEP, <br />In recent months, work on the Justice Facilities Expansion Project (JEEP) related to the <br />planned farmer's market and RiverPark (on County lands adjoining the Stillhotse Creek <br />project) required discussions with EEP and the JEEP design team to resolve the location of <br />the stream crossings and the location of a possible expansion of the Farmer's Market. EEP <br />has agreed to provide for a bridge at the desired location for farmer's market access (one of: <br />three bridges), and will narrow the stream restoration project plantings to provide far the <br />