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~~ <br />Orange County <br />Environment ~ Resource Conservation <br />306-A Revere Road / PO Box 8181. <br />Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />Phone: (919) 245-2590, Fax: (919) 644-3351 <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Laura Blackmon, County Manager <br />FROM: David Stancil, Environment and Resource Conservation Director <br />DATE: September 5, 2008 <br />RE: Jordan Lake Collaboration Working Group Manager's Meeting <br />On August 27, a briefing was held by the Jordan Lake Collaboration Working Group for <br />managers from the stakeholder jurisdictions. The meeting was attended by County <br />Managers from Chatham and Orange, and City Managers of Durham, Chapel Hill, <br />Carrboro, Pittsboro, Cary and Apex. The OWASA Executive Director (who is a member <br />of the Working Group) was also present, as were staff members from Durham, Chatham, <br />Orange, Cary and TJCOG. <br />As you may recall, the Jordan Lake Collaboration Working Group is an effort sponsored <br />and funded by the City of Durham to discuss and identify means for a collaborative <br />regional mechanism for Jordan Lake water resources planning, new allocation requests <br />and a coordinated western lake intake. Beau Mills, former aide to Governor Hunt and <br />now a partner in the consulting firm of FountainWorks, was hired this spring to <br />coordinate the effort. <br />The purpose of the briefing was to inform the managers of the Working Group activity to <br />date, provide context on the many challenges and opportunities that relate to the long- <br />term use of Jordan Lake as a water supply, and request advice on a "gameplan" for <br />approaching elected boards with athree-part proposal for further work: <br />1. A Memorandum of Agreement for regional water resource planning <br />(including cost-shares for retaining FountainWorks in the coordinating role). <br />This would include a regional water supply and demand strategic plan. <br />2. A strategy and sequence of activities toward new water allocation requests <br />to the State Department of Water Resources, and <br />3. A strategy and sequence of activities toward a future water intake on the <br />west side of the lake. <br /> <br />