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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2006
OWASA purchase to
preserve water supply
Officials urge water
conservation efforts
BY ALEX HENDERSON
STAFF WRITER
The Orange Water and Sewer
Authority finalized the purchase
of 74 acres of undeveloped land
Wednesday for the preservation of
the community’s water supply.
The tract, which cost OWASA
$2.2 million, is located next to
University Lake and Morgan
Creek.
OWASA Planning Director Ed
Holland said that because of the
property’s proximity to the lake, the
authority decided to make the pur
chase in the interest of long-term
water preservation.
The land previously was owned
by the Harold W. Ray Family
Trust and the Annie C. Ray Ihist.
Leaders of the trusts approached
OWASA about six months ago with
a proposal to sell the land.
“It sort of came to us,” Holland
said.
Chapel Hill and Carrboro aver
age about 8.5 million gallons of
water usage a day, which translates
to 3.1 billion gallons annually.
Chapel Hill and Carrboro’s
70,000 residents are supplied by
two water sources, University Lake
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Cane Creek, which holds more
water than University Lake, also
is more expensive to pump out of,
Holland said.
By the year 2030, the com
munity’s water supply will grow
significantly, thanks to the addi
tion of a stone reservoir being
quarried by the American Stone
Company.
Holland said that because of
this addition, there is no risk of the
community running out of water,
but that responsibility for water
usage still rests with its residents.
“The better job we do conserv
ing water, the longer it will last,”
he said.
OWASA has applied to the N.C.
Clean Water Management Trust
Fund for a $1.4 million reimburse
ment for the purchase.
The trust fond’s board of trust
ees will vote on the reimbursement
when it meets in October.
“We’re hopeful,” Holland said.
The fund has supported OWASA
in several grants during the last few
years for watershed preservation
and the acquisition of conserva
tion easements to protect drinking
water quality.
Conservation easements are
purchases that OWASA makes
with landowners that ensure the
responsible management of the
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land without the passage of own
ership, Holland said.
“If we could have negotiated
appropriate terms, an easement
would have been preferable,” he
said.
For example, farmers might agree
not to farm on a particular piece of
land they own in order to preserve
the water quality on that land. The
easement is a form of reimburse
ment for these agreements.
Holland said there is a possibil
ity for future cooperation between
OWASA and the town of Carrboro
to provide limited recreational use
of the 74 acres.
OWASA also might attach
restrictions to the land’s usage and
attempt to sell it on the open mar
ket.
There is no public access to the
land under its current ownership.
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
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Car Free Day runs smoothly
BY LIZA ZAYTOUN
STAFF WRITER
Chapel Hill Town Information
Officer Catherine Lazorko met her
family for pizza Friday, just like
every week.
But this trip, she didn’t have to
hunt for a parking space.
In celebration of Car Free Day,
Lazorko walked to meet her family,
who rode the bus downtown.
Carrboro and Chapel Hill resi
dents came together Friday to cel
ebrate Car Free Day. Participants
pledged to go car-free or car-lite,
by carpooling.
Lazorko rode the bus to work.
“I’m not a daily rider,” Lazorko
said. “It was very convenient and
a perfectly pleasant experience. It
was a good night to go walking.”
Lazorko helped organize a break
fast at the town hall for employees
who carpooled, vanpooled, rode the
bus or biked —ls people attended.
Instead of waiting at traffic
lights, participants in Car Free Day
were waiting for the bus. Chapel
Hill Transit offers free rides every
day.
The day’s events were sponsored by
the ReCYCLEiy, Students United for
a Responsible Global Environment
and the Village Project
Fares were waived on other local
buses that are not usually free.
Kurt Neufang, assistant director
of Chapel Hill Transit, said Friday
was like most days because the
Chapel Hill system is always free.
“We experience a high ridership
everyday,” he said.
The fare-free service began in
2002 as a collaboration between
the University, Chapel Hill and
Accident prompts traffic petitions
BY ANDY KENNEY
STAFF WRITER
Eighty-one-year-old Louis
Shook was riding his bicycle across
the intersection of Churchill and
Long Leaf drives Sept. 17 when he
collided with a car.
Shook, who suffered a fractured
skull, said he is about a quarter
of the way through his four-week
recovery.
Though residents have long com
plained about traffic in the neigh
borhood, the accident prompted a
new wave of community action.
Lisa and Wayne Richardson and
Hugh Stevenson filed two separate
petitions requesting the instal
lation of a four-way stop at the
intersection. Both petitions will be
addressed at the Chapel Hill Town
Council meeting Wednesday.
“Regardless ofwho is at fault, the
intersection is an infamously dan
gerous one and needs to be fixed
ASAP before someone else gets
hurt or killed,” Stevenson wrote in
his petition to the council.
Lisa Richardson explained her
reasons for the petition Monday.
“There’s been talk about putting
a four-way stop at that intersec
tion for as long as I’ve lived in this
neighborhood, which is probably
about 10 or 12 years,” she said.
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Sarah Bruce demonstrates how to attach and detach a bicycle from the
front of a Chapel Hill Transit bus Friday at Car Free Day in Carrboro.
Carrboro. Neufang said he was
hopeful that Car Free Day would
introduce the bus system to anoth
er segment of the community.
“We appreciate the patronage of
the students and the employees of
the UNC Hospital, but we want to
reach out to the nonaffiliated resi
dents as well,” he said.
Nick Pyeatt, a graduate student
at the University, took his usual J
route from Rock Haven Road to
campus Friday and said he noticed
it was a little more crowded.
Pyeatt, who didn’t experience
any delays, said he depends on free
transit to get around.
“I think very highly of the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro bus system,”
he said. “It allows my wife and I to
only have one car.”
Lafayette Poteat drove a bus
on car free day. He has been driv
Shook said he rode through the
intersection because he thought it
was a four-way stop. He is now a
strong advocate for adding one.
“I would feel a heck of a lot better
and a heck of a lot safer,” he said.
Residents also have expressed
concern about the intersection’s
proximity to Ephesus Elementary
School.
“It’s a walk zone,” Richardson
said. “It’s certainly not safe in the
morning when people are trying to
get to work and people are cutting
through the neighborhood.”
The neighborhood can easily be
used as a shortcut to U.S. 15-501,
which is about a mile from the
intersection.
The Chapel Hill Traffic
Engineering Program will play
an important role in any action
taken.
“I have received several com
plaints in the last few weeks,”
Chapel Hill Traffic Engineer Kumar
Neppalli said.
“I have completed my investiga
tion and will be presenting it at the
Oct 9 (council) meeting.”
Neppalli also said that the town
deals with similar issues every
month and that there are “a lot of
complaints in the town right now
for speeding problems and cut
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ing for Chapel Hill Transit for 18
years.
“I get told a lot how much the
Chapel Hill TVansit is appreciated,”
he said. “I meet a lot of interesting
people.”
He said he didn’t notice increased
ridership on Car Free Day.
Some town employees chose to
bike to work instead of taking the
bus.
Lazorko said two employees in
the inspections department that
lived far away drove to the park
and-ride lot on Eubanks Road and
then rode their bikes to work.
“They were really excited and
feeling very proud at making it up
the hill,” she said. “They were sur
prised at how little time it took.”
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
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through traffic problems.”
Council member Sally Greene
expressed confidence in the engi
neering department’s responses to
citizen requests.
“That’s a terrible thing, and I
think a four-way stop is probably
a good idea there.”
Should the decision to add stop
signs be made, Neppalli said con
struction would begin soon.
“They will be installed within
two weeks from Oct. 9, or maybe
earlier.”
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.