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ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: June 4,2002 <br /> Action Age <br /> Item No. <br /> SUBJECT: OWASA Conservation and Demand Management Ordinance <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br /> ATTACHMENTS <br /> INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Proposed Water Conservation and Geof Gledhill, 732-2196 <br /> Demand Management Ordinance— Paul Thames, ext 2303 <br /> OWASA Customers John Link ext. 2300 <br /> 2WO02 letter from Ed Kansan to John Link TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> 11/282001 letter from County Attorney to Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Robert Epting, OWASA'a Attamey(with Chapel Hill 96 15D1 <br /> attachments) Durham 688-7331 <br /> Mebane 336-2274031 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider adopting a Water Conservation and Demand Management Ordinance <br /> related to Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) customers within the unincorporated <br /> area of Orange County. <br /> BACKGROUND: OWASA has requested that Ciampono, Chapel HIII and Orange County adopt <br /> an ordinance providing for the year round conservation of water and for temporary water use <br /> restrictions during water shortages and emergencies. Canton adopted the requested <br /> ordinance on Mamh 5, 2002. Chapel Hill adopted the requested ordinance on March 25, 20D2. <br /> Both Carrboro and Chapel Hill have only one public water supplier, OWASA, and therefore the <br /> adoption of the requested ordinance was a relatively straightforward mal for both towns. <br /> Orange County, on the other hand, has a number of public water supply providers, including <br /> OWASA, the Town of Hillaborough, the Orange Alamanco Water System, the Town of Mebane <br /> and the City of Durham. Furthermore, Orange County Is the owner of a public water supply <br /> reservoir and is responsible for managing the Upper Eno watershed allocation system that was <br /> implemented some years ago as the result of the overdrawing of water from the Upper Eno <br /> River system that occurred in the past OWASA is a part of that water system because <br /> OWASA is connected with the water system of the Town of Hillsborough in a way that permits <br /> transfer: between OWASA and Hillsborough. Indirectly OWASA is further connected to the <br /> Upper Eno because it is connected to the public water system of the City of Durham and the <br /> City of Durham's public water system is now connected to the Hillsborough public water system. <br /> Further, Mere are now in place interconnections between the Town of Hillsborough and the <br /> Orange Amoral system and through Orange Alamance between Hillsborough and the City of <br /> Mebane. All of these interconnections and water transfer options and possibilities make <br /> Orange County ultimate response to the OWASA proposed Water Conservation and Demand <br /> Management Ordinance considerably more difficult, particularly since Orange County's existing <br /> Water Conservation Ordinance accounts for some of these interconnections. <br />