Unfavorable Report Given Creek Request
A denial of a request for
re-classification of Sandy
Creek is among items on an
agenda for the Environmental
Management Commission
(EMC) meeting
scheduled for Thursday
(today) at 9 a. m. in the
Department Hearing Room
in the Archdale Building at
512 N. Salisbury Street in
Raleigh.
The EMC explains the
agenda item: "By a letter
dated April 20, 1977, Ms.
Jean Duke of Rt. 2,
Henderson, requested the
reclassification of a segment
of Sandy Creek, in
Warren and Franklin counties,
Tar-Pamlico River
Basin, from Southerland's
Mill Dam to Alert Road
(Franklin County SR 1412)
What Can Grow Tobacco
Can Grow Grapes, Too
By JIM LAUGHTER
In The Smithfield Herald
It's not widely known, but
the soil that produces
Johnston County's $40-million
tobaco crop is ideal for
growing another commodity.
"Any land good for
tobacco is good for grapes,"
Said Glenn Creech, manager
of a 21-acre vineyard at
Hinnant Farms just north of
Pine Level
"Eastern North Carolina's
soil is well suited for
the scuppernong and muscadine
type grapes," said
Bruce Woodard, county
extension chairman.
"Grapes are a good way to
diversify under certain conditions."
A large part of the profit
from grapes comes from
"pick your own" customers,
so access is one prime
condition, "The vines should
be planted near a highway
or hard-surface road," Mr.
Woodard said. He estimated
that eight to 10 vineyards
are operating in the county.
The Hinnant Farms vineyard
is the biggest and Mr.
Creech explained that
"there's no way to dispose of
21 acres of grapes with
pick-your-own customers
alone." Consequently, Mr.
Creech also sells wholesale
to Winn-Dixie, Colonial, and
other grocery outlets. Adjacent
to the vineyard is a
packaging house where five
employees prepare the
grapes for wholesale distribution.
"We'll ship out 500 to 1,000
cases a week," Mr. Creech
said. Each case includes 12
pints of grapes.
Late summer means
ripened grapes and long
hours for the vineyard
operator "Labor Day is
always our busiest day,"
Mr. Creech said. "That's
because of all the traffic
coming by." The manager
works 12 to 14 hours during
an average in-season day.
Mr. Woodard said the
growers try to stay close
together on pick-your-own
rates. Hinnant Farms gets
35 cents a pound for grapes,
just over one-half what the
supermarket customer
pays.
In a good year, Mr.
Creech said, his vineyard
will produce 10 tons an acre.
"It's close to five tons an
acre this year," he added.
"Like most crops, the dry
weather hurt grapes I think
we have almost as many
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INFORMATION
WANTED
Do you have grave
markers on -your
farm for Thomas
Blanchard or Blanchet
and Judah? It is
possible that they
lived in Smith Creek
Township or near-by
in the 1700s. Thomas
died in 1806. A
daughter Nancy
Blanchard lived on
the family plantation
after her father's
death.
Any information
about these people
would be appreciated
by a genealogist in
California seeking
roots in North Carolina
Write to Barbara
Duskin, 15915 Braepark
Street, Whittier,
California 90603
grapes, but they aren't as
large as last year's."
"We'd like to see the
planting of more grapes and
strawberries and blueberries
and other types of pickyour-own
crops," Mr. Woodard
said. "This type of harvesting
(pick-your-own) is
not the most efficient. For
one thing, you're bound to
eat while you're picking.
Too, people will pick over
the fruit, and it'll get
overripe. But it can be
profitable."
The Extension office has
employed a specialist in
horticulture (the science of
growing fruits, vegetables,
and flowers). "We'll be glad
to work with anyone wishing
to begin an operation," Mr.
Woodard said.
from its present 'C' classification
to an 'A' classification."
Hie General Statutes of
North Carolina State that
the best suitable usage of
water will be applicable to
classification. The EMC
explanation states that "the
best usage of Class A-n
waters is source of water
supply for drinking, culinary,
or food-processing purposes
and any other best
usage requiring waters of
lower quality."
The explanation also
states "the staff is unaware
of any existing use or
planned future use of the
waters of Sandy Creek from
Southerland's Dam to Alert
Road as a source of water
supply for drinking, culinary
or food-processing purposes."
The staff also decided that
any "use of this segment of
Sandy Creek as a water
supply source would require
the construction of a
reservoir in order to ensure
a sufficient water yield" and
that any additional use of
Sandy Creek as a water
supply source would be at
Southerland's Mill "which is
currently used as a water
supply source for Henderson
and is currently classified
AH."
The EMC plans to deny
the request with a resolution
including: "Whereas, the
commission finds that the
waters of Sandy Creek, from
Southerland Mill Dam to
Alert Road, are properly
classified as Class "C"
waters and that there is no
justification for further
consideration of the request
for reclassification of said
waters. Now Therefore Be It
Resolved That the request
for reclassification of Sandy
Creek . . . .is hereby
denied."
Earlier in the year the
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) disclosed
that waste water might be
discharged into Nutbush
and Sandy Creek-being
eyed as sites for Henderson's
sewage treatment
facility.
The EPA officials in
Atlanta had a supplement
calling for construction of a
new plant with capacity of
212 million gallons daily on
Sandy Creek in Warren
County.
The cheapest plan at that
time was the installation of
pumping stations at the Red
Bud site and at a point
where Martin Creek and
Sandy Creek converge west
of Weldon's Pond and the
upgrading of the Nutbush
Creek plant. A Sandy Creek
plant was not envisioned in
the alternate.
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