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OWASA January 14, 2000 ®~~~~ ~~R ~ S~~ Quality Servi Mr. Moses Carey, Jr., Chairman Orange County Board of Commissioners Post Office Box 8181 Hillsborough, NC 27278 Dear Mr. Carey: Re: Request for Public Hearing on April a.2`" Regarding the Proposed Stone Quarry ]Expansion 3 E ~,~ ~L a~ - -~ nee=~~~~:--_.._ -~ ,: ~ ~ ,. .. Z am writing to request that the, application of OWASA, American Stone Company, and Mr. and Mrs. Philip 0. Durham to amend"the Orange County7Chapel Hi1UCarrbora Joint Planning Agreement and Joint Plaan~aing Airea Land Use Plan and ~1VIap and~the Land Use Element and Map of the Orange County Campreherisive Plan be considered at the April 12; 2000 Joint Planning Area Public -Hearing. The hearing scheduled for these requests (numbered. JPA-1-99 and CP-2-99), in October 1999.was postponed at our request. Since that time, OWASA has substantially completed the portions of its. Comprehensive Water and Sewer Master Plan that include: • Estimated rates of gmwth and associated water demand for the next 50 years; • Opportunities to manage that demand through different water conservation methods; • Costs and benefits of alternative future water supply sources; • Estimated safe yield that can be provided with additional quarry capacity; and • The relationship between an expanded quarry and the need for water from Jordan Lake. We are eager to share this information with the elected officials of Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Orange County, and with the community as a whole. Additionally, OWASA has engaged a consultant to review and update the Environmental lmpact Statement {E1S) that was completed in 1993 for the proposed quarry expansion. We believe that this new supplemental document will help us address concerns that have been ~raised-~since the pioposal first went, to"public hearing in 1991. It will include more recently ~develaped information on blasting and noise impacts, aii•. and water radon concentrations, and more. ~ • ~ .