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2 <br />• Allowing for greater flexibility in outdoor use by means of hand-watering and using drip <br />irrigation and soaker hose systems during non-emergency levels of a water shortage. <br />• Prohibiting the wasting of water with more detailed definition of water waste. <br />By resolution of the OWASA Board of Directors (2/27/2003), OWASA has submitted its <br />proposed Water Conservation Standards to the elected boards of Orange County, Chapel Hill <br />and Carrboro for consideration. Furthermore, OWASA's Board of Directors has requested that <br />each elected board adopt these standards into the appropriate codes and ordinances. The <br />Town of Carrboro Board of Aldermen considered and approved the proposed revisions to the <br />Town's water conservation ordinance on June 17th and the Chapel Hill Town Board will be <br />considering revision to its ordinance on June 23~d <br />Orange County's drought ordinance covers the water customers of three separate but <br />interconnected water systems (OWASA, Hillsborough and Orange-Alamance). Each of these <br />systems is also directly or indirectly (OWASA by virtue of its interconnection with Hillsborough) <br />connected to the County's water supply infrastructure (Lake Orange) which is controlled - in <br />terms of operational exigencies - by the provisions of the Eno River Capacity Use Agreement. <br />All of the water system interconnections and water transfer options and possibilities have made <br />the County's response to OWASA's proposals for revisions and modifications to the County's <br />drought ordinance somewhat complicated. Accordingly, the County adopted the original <br />ordinance revisions (2002) as an interim ordinance. While County staff have been working to <br />develop permanent ordinance revisions ultimately addressing the needs of OWASA and the <br />upper Eno water systems, those efforts are still underway. Therefore, what is proposed for <br />BOCC consideration at this time is a revision to the interim ordinance (applicable only to the <br />OWASA system and customers) that the Board adopted on June 4„ 2002. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: None <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager and the Attorney recommend that the Board adopt A <br />REVISED INTERIM ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE YEAR ROUND CONSERVATION OF <br />WATER AND FOR TEMPORARY RESTRICTIONS DURING WATER SHORTAGES AND <br />EMERGENCIES RELATED TO ALL ORANGE WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY <br />CUSTOMERS LOCATED IN THE UNINCORPORATED PART OF ORANGE COUNTY. <br />