WIP Featured in IndyWeek

Indy Week, an online and print publication for the Triangle region, recently published a profile of the Western Intake Partnership’s Jordan Lake Water Supply Project.  The article was published online July 3, 2024, and can be accessed here. The article may also be published in an upcoming print edition of Indy Week.

We appreciate their interest and the article is generally a fair and accurate overview of the WIP’s objectives and project plans, but we would like to correct a few small but important details in the article:

• The Partners are planning for the Jordan Lake water supply facilities to be operating around 2030-2031. Design activities are expected to begin in 2025, and construction is currently forecast to begin in 2027. The article incorrectly states 2029.
• Understanding the potential impacts of climate change on future water supplies is a central concern for our region’s water providers. Potential climate change impacts have been a part of regional water supply planning efforts for years, including studies performed by the North Carolina Division of Water Resources, Triangle Regional Resilience Partnership, City of Durham, and the Triangle Water Supply Partnership. The Triangle Water Supply Partnership (TWSP) is a regional coalition of water providers to facilitate regional cooperation in water supply planning. The Western Intake Partners are all members of TWSP. The TWSP is currently completing the Triangle Regional Water Supply Plan Update to ensure water supply resiliency through 2070, including hydrologic modeling of future regional water supply availability under scientifically-rigorous climate change scenarios.