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104 <br /> Water Supply for Fiddlehead Corner <br /> A water system will be designed and built under the aegis of Hands Four Development Cooperative to <br /> supply all the residences, common buildings and other needs of the Fiddlehead Corner community. <br /> Because no municipal water source is available at the location, community wells will be the water <br /> source. There will be a central plant for tanks and pumps, with a distribution network of mains and <br /> branches to supply housing clusters and common buildings. Project consultant is David Barcal, P.E., <br /> of MacConnell and Associates. The system will be managed by a professional water system operator. <br /> With the knowledge that well yields in Orange County are highly variable and unpredictable, water <br /> availability and well siting were thoroughly investigated. Evidence that flow yields in the amounts <br /> needed are likely to be available on this property is found in the USGS Water-Resources <br /> Investigations Report 00-4286, "Investigation of Ground-Water Availability and Quality in Orange <br /> County, North Carolina". Figure 5 from this report (below), based on reported well yields, maps the <br /> obtained flows across the county. Wells in the zone in which this property is located typically had 50- <br /> 75 gpm yields, the amount needed for our purposes. Fiddlehead Corner is depicted as "FC" on the <br /> figure. <br /> 7915' 70'07'30' 79" <br /> 36°15' — <br /> -—-—-^--— —-—- <br /> i r <br /> I dip <br /> � � r <br /> J I <br /> I � <br /> 3r'or3o' I 'f <br /> I � <br /> I � <br /> f � <br /> 36° <br /> I <br /> I e � <br /> � � t <br /> L +? EXPLANATION <br /> 35'52 30 Y— f MAXIMUM WELL YIELD <br /> - �•- - - r 4n gallons pnr miwlal <br /> E10-25 <br /> '❑St•75 <br /> 0 5 10MILES Ti-IOQ <br /> I 110 <br /> O 5 10 KILOMETERS <br /> CV61 AKIATinhi <br />