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112 <br /> State Park, including the Occoneechee Creek(above Cane Creek), Collins Creek, <br /> Speedway Trail;the Brumley Forest Nature Terrells Creek, Morgan Creek, Bolin <br /> Preserve;the Triangle Land Conservancy- Creek,and Booker Creek. Orange County <br /> operated nature preserves,and the maintains strong groundwater protection <br /> University-owned and operated Duke regulations,which help minimize concerns <br /> Forest Lands. about drinking water quality. <br /> Trends and Conditions The County's stormwater management <br /> practices focus on reducing runoff, <br /> Public indoor recreational facilities in promoting groundwater recharge,and <br /> Orange County are primarily concentrated managing storm flows to mitigate "urban <br /> around municipal centers,while larger stream syndrome"through measures such <br /> recreational open spaces are more widely as reducing impervious surfaces, installing <br /> distributed across the rural areas. Mapping green stormwater infrastructure,and <br /> of parks and recreation amenities with the maintaining healthy riparian buffers. For <br /> CDC's Social Vulnerability Index highlights definitions of the water supply watershed <br /> a disparity in recreational offerings critical areas, County designated,and state <br /> in some areas,showing that some of required,see the Glossary. <br /> the county's most socially vulnerable In most of the northern and southwestern <br /> unincorporated communities have limited areas of Orange County,as well as <br /> access to these resources. <br /> some portions between Chapel Hill and <br /> Regarding greenways and trails, most Hillsborough,the vast majority of residents <br /> of the existing paved and unpaved trails depend on groundwater for their water <br /> are designed for recreational purposes supply.While many residents receive <br /> rather than for transportation.The DCHC water from one of the county's five public <br /> MPO is supporting the development of drinking water utilities, nearly 40% of the <br /> the Orange County Bicycle & Pedestrian entire population relies on private wells, <br /> Plan,which focuses on rural areas through especially in rural and unincorporated <br /> the 2025 Unified Planning Work Program. areas. Monitoring groundwater levels and <br /> The Mountain-to-Sea Trail, part of North quality is therefore essential to ensuring <br /> Carolina's State Trails Program,also runs the long-term sustainability of water <br /> through the county.Though largely resources in these communities. <br /> unconstructed,approved county routes <br /> will extend east along the Haw River from Current Initiatives and Programs <br /> Alamance County and continue along the <br /> Eno River into Eno River State Park and Orange County is home to a range of <br /> Durham County(Figure 12). initiatives and programs focused on <br /> environmental protection and parks and <br /> The county lies within the Upper Neuse, recreation.The County also administers <br /> Cape Fear,and Roanoke River Basins,and a variety of regulations and guidelines <br /> serves as a headwaters area for these related to erosion control,stormwater <br /> rivers. However,seven of the county's management,stream buffer protections, <br /> water bodies are designated as impaired tree conservation, landscaping,and energy <br /> by the North Carolina Division of Water efficiency. <br /> Resources and the U.S. Environmental <br /> Protection Agency.These include East The State of North Carolina has <br /> Fork Eno River(Lake Orange), Cane designated Orange County as the <br /> ORANGE COUNTY LAND USE PLAN 2050 109 <br />