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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 2, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 1 <br />SUBJECT: Oran a Alamance Utili S stem Re ort <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />County Engineers O/A report County Engineer, ext 2303 <br />County Engineer's Efland sewer report Plannin Director, ext 2585 <br />Planning Director's Efland/Cheeks TELEPHONE NUMBERS• <br />goal issues outline Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />(Under Separate Cover) Chapel Hill 968-0.501 <br />O/A Corporate Bylaws Durham 688-7331 <br />O/A Articles of Incorporation Mebane 336 227-2031 <br />O/A Amended Articles of Incorporation <br />O/A Orange County Service Area Map <br />(Previously Provided -- Please <br />bring to the meeting) <br />PURPOSE: To provide the BOCC with general information as to the Orange-Alamance <br />Water System to provide, to the extent possible, answers to specific questions posed by <br />Commissioner Jacobs. <br />BACKGROUND: The Orange-Alamance Water System is anon-profit rural membership <br />corporation that is classified under North Carolina health/environmental health statutes as a <br />public water supply utility. It was officially incorporated in September 1965 and became <br />operational in August 1968. In its 32 years of operation, the system has grown from its original <br />100,000 gallon per day (gpd) demand from 360 customers in Orange and Alamance Counties to <br />a system which cun'ently serves 3600 commercial, industrial, institutional and residential <br />customers (approximately 1200 in Orange County, 2400 in Alamance County) with an average <br />water consumption of 1.0 million gallons per day. <br />The terms of the Eno River Capacity Use Agreement limit Orange-Alamance to a Stage I raw <br />water withdrawal of 820,000 gallons per day during periods of low flow, which typically occur for <br />approximately six months of the year. On several occasions, one lasting for as long as a month, <br />Orange-Alamance has been limited to withdrawals as low as 700,000 gallons per day. Orange- <br />Alamance makes up the difference between its Eno River allocations and its actual water <br />demand by means of purchases of treated water from other water systems and/or by the use of <br />well water from its single operational high-capacity drinking water well. Another high. capacity <br />drinking water well is due to become operational in the very near future. <br />