<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 14-186. - Findings.</div>
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               The board does hereby find that:
               
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                  (1)
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                  Water quality standards mandated by state and federal law are requiring that local
                  governments develop more detailed, advanced, and costly stormwater programs.
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                  (2)
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                  Effective stormwater management should be provided to protect, to the extent practicable,
                  the citizens of the county from the loss of life and property damage from flooding.
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                  (3)
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                  The construction, operation, and maintenance of stormwater conveyance systems requires
                  long term planning and stable and adequate funding.
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                  (4)
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                  Chapter 153A, Article 15 of the North Carolina General Statutes, authorizes the county
                  to acquire, construct, establish, enlarge, improve, extend, maintain, own, operate,
                  and contract for the operation of stormwater management programs designed to protect
                  water quality by controlling the level of pollutants in, and the quantity and flow
                  of, stormwater and structural and natural stormwater and drainage systems of all types.
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                  (5)
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                  The establishment of a stormwater management utility that would be accounted for as
                  a separate enterprise fund and would facilitate the provision of a stormwater management
                  program is reasonable and in the public interest.
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                  (6)
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                  North Carolina General Statute 153A-277 authorizes Durham County to establish and
                  revise, from time to time, a schedule of rates and charges to fund the stormwater
                  management program activities including both structural and natural stormwater conveyance
                  and drainage system services provided by the stormwater management utility.
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               (Ord. of 7-13-20(1))
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