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Draft 10/8/99 <br />G. Ground Water Recharge to The study found that 10% of the <br />the Regolith-Fractured prime forests in the County were <br />Crystalline Rock Aquifer lost or reduced in size due. to <br />System, Orange County, NC building activity. The report also <br />(1996, USGS) reiterated, through. a series of <br /> maps, the significance of buffers <br />As the first phase of the County's , and connections between the <br />ongoing ground water existing core areas of prime <br />investigation, this report forest. Permanent protection of <br />introduces a method of large hardwood and mixed <br />evaluating the. quantity of ground hardwood forests was a <br />water in the County's underlying recommendation of the report, <br />° geology, by estimating ground along with the provision of <br />.water recharge to the aquifer buffers for core areas of forest. <br />system. The report, conducted: by The preservation .and/or <br />the U.S. Geological Survey, also rehabilitation of forests along <br />shows how this data can be used streams and in overland <br />to gauge the amount of land connecting corridors was also <br />..needed to accommodate recommended. Appendix F <br />adequate groundwater supplies. contains a map from this report <br /> of prime forest areas. <br />. While there are no proposals in <br />the report. related to land I. Land Use Element of the <br />acquisition, this report and the <br />- Orange County <br />second phase of the project Comprehensive Plan (Natural <br />(currently underway) note the. and Cultural Resources <br />importance of protecting section) <br />wellhead protection areas, and <br />may indicate areas of high Many of the above data and <br />yielding wells where some information from other sources <br />protection of the. recharge area was aggregated into'this section <br />may be needed. of the County Comprehensive <br />H. A Landscape With Wildlife, <br />Part I (1996, Triangle Land <br />Conservancy) <br />To follow-up on the .1988 <br />inventory, Triangle Land <br />Conservancy (with funding via a <br />grant from Orange County) <br />prepared a report identifying and <br />evaluating the remaining prime <br />hardwood forests in the County. <br />Plan, which was adopted by the <br />Board of Commissioners in <br />January 19.96. The creation of <br />this section serves two purposes. <br />First, it provides an important link <br />to land use policy with -the <br />information know about natural <br />and cultural. resources, some of <br />which is part of the Flexible <br />Development program. Second, it <br />was envisioned as a method to <br />address natural and cultural <br />9 <br />