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12 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY Orange County <br /> LAND USE PLAN Fact : . . <br /> g Our Future, 2050 <br /> February1 <br /> 24 <br /> nmanope ft�,re��em .1 - --- <br /> ,rye• <br /> Water Resources $':,; Population Projections by County <br /> Watersheds <br /> (Adopted 2021) <br /> ®®®®® <br /> • Orange County is a headwaters a" ' :Population <br /> area of the Neuse, Roan©keProjections <br /> s� IF Granville County 37,543 12,981 13.203 67.241 24.455 22,301 <br /> and Cape Fear Rivers. "* <br /> Harnett County 40.146 14,823 9.032 65.893 23.925 17.847 <br /> Headwater streams are like the �t <br /> - 1 - �� Chatham County 52.213 21.995 12.272 104,393 43.568 24,454 <br /> capillary system of a blood supply <br /> network—fust a5 the health of the _ceve re® +�# Franklin County 60,260 22,797 15,082 94,853 36,244 21,927 <br /> whole organism depends on a r' oa.nq.c.aanty 148,890 57,150 74,721 143,637 75,602 116,341 <br /> functioning capillary system,the � tl Johnston County 186.096 67.509 54.923 370215 132,824 90.725 <br /> health of larger streams and rivers ' <br /> depend upon an intact primary <br /> •�•,,,� Durham County 324,784 134.634 235.002 463.414 193,987 401,926 <br /> ,.. „� =�•m��361 <br /> headwater stream network. Wake County 1,129,86s 437,240 614,734 1,7ao,us 690,009 1,176,311 <br /> Utilities <br /> Future Land Use The following utility providers serve Orange County: <br /> The currently adopted Future Land Use Water and Sewer <br /> Map shows land use classifications within Town of Hillsborough <br /> Orange County: Orange Water and Sewer Authority—OWASA (Chapel Hill and Carrboro) <br /> • Activity Nodes The Rural Buffer <br /> Agricultural-Residential• Transition Areas Orange-Alamance Water System(Efland/western Orange County) <br /> Uses Graham-Mebane Water System(Mebane) <br /> Economic Development <br /> Districts City of Mebane(Sewer),including former Efland Sewer System <br /> The updated Orange County Land Use Plan 2050 and Department of Environmental Quality-Public Water Supply community wells <br /> Future Land Use Map will guide decisions made by Well and Septic permits are issued by Orange County's Health Department. <br /> the County about where and how new - 5 <br /> development happens. National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System{NPDES}tracks and controls wastewater discharge into waterways <br /> • Electricity <br /> • Duke Power <br /> Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation <br /> --•-• • Natural Gas <br /> • Public Service Company of North Carolina(primarily only within municipalities) <br /> • Individual Propane tanks(many households in unincorporated areas) <br />