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