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WHEREAS, the concept of the water supply plan which focused on meeting the is community's need for capacity for the next 50 years through a larger Ragged Mountain dam and reservoir and a pipeline from the South Fork Rivanna reservoir was endorsed in 2005 and supported at that time by the Rivanna Conservation Society, Piedmont Environmental Council, The Nature Conservancy, Advocates for Sustainable Albemarle Population, League of Women Voters Charlottesville/Albemarle, Southern Environmental Law Center, Citizens for Albemarle, and Friends of the Moorman's River; and, WHEREAS, in June 2006 the Charlottesville City Council endorsed this preferred alternative, as did the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, the Albemarle County Service Authority and the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority; and, WHEREAS, the Ragged Mountain alternative has been reviewed, approved and permitted by the Department of Environmental Quality of the Commonwealth of Virginia; and, WHEREAS, on May 6, 2008 City Council held a work session devoted exclusively to presentations on the proposed water supply plan, followed by a public hearing at the regular City Council meeting on May 19, 2008, at which time interested members of the public provided additional input on the proposed local water supply plan; and, • WHEREAS, this Council has considered all suggested alternatives to the proposed plan, with due consideration to the financial and environmental consequences of the proposed plan and the possible alternatives that would meet the community's potable water needs for the next 50 years. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council for the City of Charlottesville that the local Water Supply Plan as proposed by the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority is hereby approved, with the following components: • A new dam at the Ragged Mountain Reservoir, at a spillway height 45 feet above the existing lower dam spillway structure, at a preliminary estimated total project cost of approximately $37,000,000; • A new 36 inch transmission pipeline from the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir to the expanded Ragged Mountain Reservoir, at a preliminary estimated total project cost of approximately $56,000,000, which pipeline will replace the 18 inch pipeline from the Sugar Hollow Reservoir, constructed in 1927; • The complete replacement of the piping and pumping transmission system between the Ragged Mountain Reservoir and the Observatory Water Treatment Plant, at a preliminary estimated total project cost of approximately $12,000,000, which will replace the two cast iron pipelines constructed in 1908 and 1949 and the very aged Royal Pump Station; • A major overhaul of the Observatory Water Treatment Plant to advance public • health by providing state-of-the-art facilities that will increase the Plant's rating 2