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7~ <br />ERCD Advisory Boards and Staff Revisions to NCSE -Attachment #8 <br />1 Another watershed within the Neuse basin in northeastern Orange <br />2 County is the Little River Watershed. The Little River features a North <br />3 Fork and South Fork in Orange County, before the two merge <br />4 downstream in Durham County. Finally in the Neuse, the headwaters of <br />5 the Flat River are located in far northeastern Orange County. Both the <br />6 Little River and Flat River continue east into Durham County into <br />7 reservoirs before joining the Eno in Falls Lake. These are also water <br />8 supply watersheds for Durham County. <br />9 <br />10 Southern and western Orange County lies within the Cape Fear River <br />11 Basin. The Cape Fear River begins a few mileser~e~ges south of frat~r <br />12 Jordan Lake, southeast of Orange County, and flows to the Atlantic <br />13 Ocean south of Wilmington, but its headwaters lie far to the west, north <br />14 of Greensboro. In this region, the Haw River and other streams feed <br />15 Jordan Lake a large reservoir located southeast of the County line, -and <br />16 thence the Cape Fear. <br />17 <br />18 Many of tThese streams flow west/southwest into the Haw River or <br />19 south and east into New Ho a Creek River- -the collector stream for <br />20 the portion of the Cape Fear basin in Orange County. The Haw itself is <br />21 the southwestern boundary of Orange County, and also has the <br />22 distinction of being the only river or stream that touches Orange County <br />23 from an upstream source. Within the Cape Fear Basin in Orange County <br />24 are severalt~rany watersheds that drain to the Haw: Back Creek and Haw <br />25 Creek to the northwest and west, and Cane Creek and Collins Creek to <br />26 the southwest. In the southeastern part of the County. -Morgan <br />27 Creek flows into Jordan Lake, and New Hope Creek and its tributaries <br />28 flow east and south to briefly become the New Hope River, just before <br />29 entering lordan Lake. `- `'-- --~~``-~~`. WWater supply impoundments <br />30 within the Cape Fear in Orangeth-i~County include Cane Creek Reservoir <br />31 and University Lake. Portions of western Orange County in the Cape <br />32 Fear basin drain west into Quaker Creek Reservoir northeast of Mebane. <br />33 <br />34 Finally, a small portion of northwestern Orange County is part of the <br />35 Roanoke .River Basin, and the two streams in this area -North Hyco <br />36 Creek and South Hyco Creek, drain north into Caswell County and the <br />37 Dan River. The Dan straddles the North Carolina-Virginia border and <br />38 eventually becomes the Roanoke River, flowing east to Albemarle Sound. <br />39 <br />40 In all, there are 15 different watersheds in Orange County within these <br />41 three river basins. (See Map 6-9). <br />42 <br />43 <br />44 <br />45 <br />46 <br />47 <br />48 <br />49 <br />50 <br />©E~avu~Cauv~:ty Ccn~rel~.w~-iv~Pla.vv Public Hearing Draft 5-6-08 Page 6-'?p <br />