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252 <br /> Approved 8.7.24 <br /> 153 pressure and sufficient capacity and storage so that all of those buildings will be <br /> 154 sprinklered according to building code, which is State code and County code also. There <br /> 155 will also be a public, if you will call it, water system, although it's not a public like county <br /> 156 owned or city owned, that will be lines that provide distribution water to all of the <br /> 157 properties, all the homes, all the buildings, and those will also be operated just as if they <br /> 158 were a municipal utility providing water from all of the water quality requirements, all of the <br /> 159 water pressure requirements, all of those things. Again, that is reviewed and approved or <br /> 160 criticized and resubmitted and approved by the state. The County also has a role in that <br /> 161 you don't directly approve those pieces, but I think as Cy noted at the last meeting, the <br /> 162 County has a direct obligation to make sure that those rules and that this proposal actually <br /> 163 are copacetic and do work together, and so there are overlaps of looks at that. The water <br /> 164 distribution will go basically along the street system that's internal,just like it would in a <br /> 165 city structure with water pipes, and the same for collection for wastewater, which would go <br /> 166 to a treatment plant, and then which goes through a treatment level and out, so that's sort <br /> 167 of the basic structure, that organization, of how those pieces fit together. <br /> 168 <br /> 169 Beth Bronson: Thank you, I saw the proposed water assessment and having the four main wells, and <br /> 170 then I also saw from the department of environment quality that where those wells were <br /> 171 located were also in protected areas, buffer zones for the existing protected waters that <br /> 172 were there, either the streams or ephemeral streams— <br /> 173 <br /> 174 Scott Radway: You saw that they were or were not? <br /> 175 <br /> 176 Beth Bronson: They were within the areas of where the stream buffers would be. <br /> 177 <br /> 178 Scott Radway: No, they are not. Those wells are located outside the buffers required by both the State <br /> 179 and the County, and there is an additional dimensional feature in there in addition to just <br /> 180 buffers of how far you have to actually be from the stream. And so, of the wells we have <br /> 181 proposed and all that we would ever get permitted, none of them can be within a buffer <br /> 182 and the ones that are showing on our plan are not within any buffers or any protected <br /> 183 stream areas. It's hard when you're looking at a small drawing of a big map to be able to <br /> 184 decipher all of those pieces. <br /> 185 <br /> 186 Beth Bronson: I was looking at Attachment 1, Page 206, but it was where those four wells are proposed <br /> 187 and you are correct, well C does not look like it and they do not look like they are near the <br /> 188 buffer area but thank you very much for addressing those concerns. I guess I did not see <br /> 189 in that report that there was a proposal for any kind.You have worked with emergency <br /> 190 services to make sure that you've required this, but that is depending upon the pipes <br /> 191 being to pressure at all times or there'd be a reservoir for the sprinkler system? <br /> 192 <br /> 193 Scott Radway: There's a minimum pressure you have to have all the time in the fire sprinkler system. In <br /> 194 addition to that, if a sprinkler head comes on, there is a pressure that you have to have <br /> 195 and that has to be maintained in the system and it's based on time. So, you'd have to <br /> 196 have that to operate for a number of minutes. There's two overlaps here as it fits in within <br /> 197 the county's volunteer fire structure, which is, the most important pieces are don't let <br /> 198 damage happen or absolutely minimize the damage until the fire protection services can <br /> 199 get to the property with their equipment and so we have not run a time structure test on <br /> 200 this yet in order to size the tanks and to work on the pressure, but before we get <br /> 201 approved, we anticipate we will have the fire company out there, from the cooperating <br /> 202 agreements with Carrboro and others, Hillsborough agreement, for service for aerial <br />