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Clean Water Management Trust Fund Grant Agreement No. 1999A-017 Orange County Property Acquisition Exhibit A Water Ouality Obi ectiv~: The water quality objective of this project is to establ~.sh and maintain 300-feet wide riparian buffers along a section of the Eno River (Corporation Lake), McGowan Creek, and an unnamed tributary to the Eno which flows through the property and into Corporation Lake, a WS-II public water supply. 32 Project Description: Orange County will acquire a &2.65 acre parcel of land that includes property located within 400 feet of the Corporation Lake public water supply impoundment located on the Eno River. McGowan Creek, a main tributary of the Eno, is just north of the property and an unnamed tributary of the Eno traverses the property. Three hundred feet wide riparian buffers within the 62.65 acre parcel to~be purchased will buffer the Eno_, McGowan Creek and the unnamed tributary. These riparian buffers will be placed under a permanent conservation easement. Property Description: The parcel of land to be purchased is part of Duke Forest (Hillsboro Division) and owned by Duke University. The parcel is located in central Orange County,, north of US 70 West and adjacent to property owned by the Orange-Alamance Water System, Inc., that contains Corporation Lake. The 62.65 acre parcel to be purchased is identified as Orange County Tax Map Block Lot (TMBL) Number 3.41..1.4 and PIN 9855-50-8167. The 62.65 acre parcel is further identified and depicted, on the March 2000 Callemyn-Parker, Inc. plat of survey titled "Property surveyed for Orange County Environment & Resource Conservation Department" which plat is recorded at Plat Book Page of the Orange County Registry. The property subject to the conservation easement to be conveyed to the State of North Carolina in consideration of the grant funds is that portion of the 62.65 acre parcel totalling 31.91. acres designated on the recorded plat as "SUBJECT TO CONSERVATION EASEMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN ORANGE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA AND THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA." Project Budget.: The project budget consists of approximately $150,000 from Orange County and $143,000 from the CWMTF. Six Thousand Dollars ($6,000) of the money received from CWMTF will be used for surveying and legal/administrative fees; $137,000 will be applied to the land purchase.