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Attachment 6.4:5 1 Another watershed within the Neuse basin in northeastern Orange County is 2 the Little River Watershed. The Little River features a North Fork and South 3 Forl< in Orange County, before the two merge downstream in Durham 4 County. Finally in the Neuse, the headwaters, of the Flat River are located in 5 far northeastern Orange County. Both the Little River and Flat River continue 6 east. into Durham County into reservoirs before joining the Eno in Falls Lake. 7 These are also water supply watersheds for Durham County. 8 g Southern and western Orange County lies within the Cape Fear River Basin. 10 The Cape Fear River begins a few milesetje-~ south of fratn-Jordan Lake, 11 southeast of Orange County, and flows to the Atlantic Ocean south of 12 Wilmington, but its headwaters lie far to the west, north of Greensboro. In 13 this region, the Haw River and other streams feed Jordan LakeL a large 14 reservoir located southeast of the County line, -and thence the Cape Fear. 15 16 Many of these streams flow west/southwest into the Haw River or south 17 and east into New Hope Creelc/River- -the collector stream for the portion 18 of the Cape Fear basin in Orange County. The Haw itself is the southwestern 19 boundary of Orange County, and also has the distinction of being the only 20 river or stream that touches Orange County from an upstream source. Within 21 the Cape Fear Basin in Orange County are severalty-any watersheds that drain 22 to the Haw: Bacl< Creelc and Haw Creek to the northwest and west, and Cane 23 Creek and Collins Creek to the southwest In the sautheastern part of the 24 County, ~rrd-Morgan Creek flows into Jordan Lal<e, and New Hope Creek 25 and its tributaries flow east and south to briefly become the New Hope River. 26 just before entering Jordan Lake. WWater supply 27 impoundments within the Cape Fear in Orange~hts-County. include Cane 28 Creek Reservoir and University. Lake. Portions of western Orange County in 29 the Cape Fear basin drain west into Quaker Creek Reservoir northeast of 30 Mebane. 31 32 Finally, a small portion of northwestern Orange County is part of the 33 Roanoke River Basin, and the two streams in this area -North Hyco Creek 34 and South Hyco .Creelc, drain north into Caswell County and the Dan River. 35 The Dan straddles the North Carolina-Virginia border and eventually 36 becomes the Roanoke River, flowing east to Albemarle Sound. 37 38 In all, there are 15 different watersheds in Orange County within these three 39 river basins. (See Map 6-9). 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 55