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Shallotte'.s capacity for growth
depends on the part of town you're
considering, but is generally good,
engineer Finley Boney advised town
aldermen last Wednesday night.
By implementing several changes
to reduce peak-hour demand, he said,
the town's sewer system can readily
serve a population of 2,500 to 3,000
without enlarging the treatment
plant.
Boney, of Boncy & Associates, was
invited to meet with the board to
discuss how to keep the town's sewer
system capacity in pace with the
community's rapid growth. At a
future meeting he will bring back
more specific plans.
"Wp wprp concerned about having
to spend large amounts of money
before the present system is paid
for," a relieved Mayor Beamcn
Hewctt told Boney. "I'm relieved you
say the problems are relatively
minor."
Still, said Boney, there are limits
on the town's growth.
"What Is available for development
varies from one part of town to
another " ho said "Wi> rniinnt <uiv
every acre in town has the satue
ability to grow and to develop."
For instance: the Pender Road
area where A.Far! and Muddy
Miliiyor. kniu in Hnuplno a combination
condominium and single-family
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traders (or thr next two years Satu
above, from the left. Don Evans, tn
Doxlrr, chairman, were re-elected
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Heading up U?e countywtdc effort
will be a committee composed of
former Democrats, Evans said.
These include Michael Hobbs of
lloldcn Bench, Shirley Clemmoivs of
Iceland, Bill Rabon, Bruce Caldwell,
Bill Klrby and liCslle Myrle of
Southport and Johnny Voreen 111 of
Oak Island.
"1 iK'llcve there are a lot of people
tn Brunswick County who won't mind
switching over since ii's hum pupuuu
to be a Uepublican." suggested
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$10,000 cixinty allocation for next
year.
lYesenUy. Uie county Is providing
$10,000 to each department in
quarterly Installments, or $200,000
each fiscal year Under thr new plan,
approximately $V>0.000 per year
would be budgeted by tl?e county for
{try and rearn* units, or t3SO.OOO for
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in quarterly installments
When Hwppell Asketi Coullim
volunteer Virginia Varnell what she
tlK>u>:ht the county's responsibility to
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home residential community. Before
any additional taps can be made on
that collection line, Boney said,
another outlet must be added. This
will be done as Brierwood Estates expands,
he said, and was a condition
on the permit issued for Phase II
development.
Brierwood developers. Mayor
Hewett and a town alderman were to
meet with Milliken and adjoining
property owner R.D. (Deedy) White
III to discuss the best way to route
that outlet.
To insure that the system continues
meeting the demands of growth,
however, he suggested several steps
to even the load on the sewer system
as soon as possible. These include:
Requiring inaasiriai-size users to
install 10,000-galIon holding tanks
with timers to pump wastes only during
ron-peak hours,10 p.m. to 6 a.m.,
to keep from overtaxing the collection
system. These industrial users
include the town's two laundromats
and would include West Brunswick
High Scltool on N.C. 130 west Just outside
the town limits. (An industriallevel
Is any customer with 2Vz times
average domestic use per hour, or
about 4,000 to 5,000 gallons per day.)
He recommended that the school be
allowed to hook on only by building
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Redirecting sewerage from the
lift station directly to the Forest
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rasurcr, and John necretary.
to office. At the
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Evans.
In all. 161 delegates voted at the
convention. representing all but four
precincts, Waccanuiw, Woodburn.
Inland and long wood
They elected as township chairmen
the fdlowing: Alfred Walker. Northwest;
Arthur Knox, Town Creek,
Madeleine Gordon, Snuthville; Percy
Woodard, lx)ckwood Folly; Mollis
Smith, Shnllotte; ami Don Stanley,
Dozter had good news for the crowd
linq $260,000
provide funds for fire and rescue
units should be, she responded. "You
should help yourself first If you run
into something you can't cope with,
then you should have a place to go "
Providing block sums to districts
would be a way to eliminate looking
at each depai uiieiit *s uwufli uVi
all have the same needs. Carter said
" AH of them have common needs "'
Carter said, "but from a countywidr
standpoint, you can't look at the
needs of every fire and rescue squad
from one end of the county to the
other as having the same problems "
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Drive treatment plant by changes at
four connections on U.S. 17 as proposed
last fall.
Considering the impact of each
new development project on the
sewer system.
Longer-term solutions include
developing at least one more loop
connection within the system,
possibly an underground channel
from Biuff Drive to Wall Street, and
buying more property at the treatment
plant 3ite to allow expansion of
the spray irrigation system. A second
river crossing may require installation
of larger pumps at the lift station
and larger-diameter force mains
from the lift station to the treatment
plant.
There's no need for a third treatment
lagoon at present, he said.
The greatest restrictions on
capacity of the town'3 sewer system
to accommodate growth, he said, involve
the collection system, not the
treatment plant on Forest Drive or
the lift station on Wall Street.
!n these respects, he said, "You've
got a lot of flexibility.
"I'm not really concerned in 1985
about the capacity of the treatment
plant. I am concerned about the collection
system's capacity at specific
points on the line.
"If we have another 50 connections
on a 1'4-inch line, we're in trouble. If
you put tnem on a uu ee-incn nne
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hilt* Millie Murrow will serve as
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In terms of statistics: Nationwide, he
said, three-fifths of nil voters under
age 30 voted for Itcagan, as 54 percent
of all women voting
News that North Carolina was "the
winningest state in the last election in
this century" for the GOP brought
cheers and a round of applause.
lie said that during his first two
years in office, progess had been
GOP, but Hint he was continuing hs
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half completed the job I had set for
myself."
The local GOP had a voter turnout
of 71 percent in November, compared
to a county wide turnout of 69 percent,
lie saiu. A subsianuaiiy larger proportion
of Republicans voted
straight-ticket than Democrats, he
added; earlier he thanked all
Democrats who split their tickets in
November.
In other business, convention
uric-gaies aiso selected 44 delegates
and 44 alternates to attend the
district and state conventions
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we're okay."
While collection lines throughout
town were designed with a growth
potential of 20 percent to 50 percent
at the time of installation, the town
has grown much more rapidly than
earlier projections indicated.
"Every time you turn around
there's another request to add on to
the system," he said.
"It is inevitable. You have to plan
for, you have planned for," he continued,
referencing ordinances that
govern extensions or hookups to the
system.
Pumping 10 Hours
Ac a raciilt thp cuctom mimnlofoH
in 1903, already is pumping 150
gallons per minute about 10 hours a
day. about the capacity it was expected
to handle in five years' time,
not less than two years.
"If we keep growing at the rate
we're growing now the system will
have a life expectancy of eight to 10
years," predicted the mayor.
As originally designed, the state
estimated the plant would serve the
town approximately 20 years without
further expansion, eventually pumping
120,000 gallons per day, with an
estimated per capita use of 70 gallons
or 80 gallons per day.
To pay for improvements to the
system, Boney said the town needs to
evaluate its sewer rates and connection
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systems and septic tanks could cause
said the mayor. "We had taken steps to
happening."
Now the proposed regulations coulc
development the new sewer systen
serve?and a major source of its financ
at the beach has slowed, pending c
system. Fnc individual homes and proj
system is in place were to play a large
ing.
"We hope they will have the foresight
aware of the current situation," she sa
The project is to financed in part bybonds,
fruni-fociage aiiacssfiieiiiS, ifiip
ecmmcdaiions tax revenues connect!
EDA grant, a state Clean Water Bon
charges.
Recent data compiled by DEM si
runoff from high density development
iform bacteria levels that range froi
organisms per rniUileter. The state
?hellfi?hjng when the feral roliform r
U.S. Public Health .Service's feral rn|ifr
parts per 100 mil'dleters. The numb*
creases every year.
Fecal coliform is a bacteria found ii
all warm-blooded animals. It is foun
runoff, including septic tank wastes
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free tap-ons) to provide capital
reserve funds for future expansion,
and to coasider the methods, such as
an acreage fee, available for assessing
property other than by front
footage. Mayor Hewett said he didn't
want existing customers having to
bear the brunt of the improvements,
though residents of the town at the
time the system design was completed
were not charged connection
iees or lur uie new bepuc uiiirs uic
system required in many cases.
Shallotte's innovative "pressure"
system drew substantial Environmental
Protection Agency funding
since it was to serve a town
designated by the county in 1975 as an
"area of environmental concern."
Last Day
Monday, April 15, will be the last
day Shallotte residents can register
to vote in a May 14 referendum on extension
of beer and wine sales in
Shallotte, Mayor Beamon Hewett announced.
Voters will decide whether to allow
on- and/ or off-premises sales of un
fortified wines and on-premises sales
of beer.
Settle On Colors
Aldermen confirmed their
preference Monday night for a blue
and white flag after much jesting on
just what shade of blue should be
used?Duke, Carolina or more close'.7,
uic u\uv v.. the .'jr.cricer. fleg. The
Could Curtail De
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water pollution,
prevent that from In re!atcd busin,
9 a.m. Friday, Api
. assessment roll fo
n .s intended to the aMcssmcnt r0
dng. Development ^ [oUowi
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U* sale of sewer ^ ^ slng|e (a
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closes waters to a public hearing a
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its spokes.
Other Business
Referred a proposed flood hazard
reduction ordinance to town attorney
Mason Anderson for review and to
delete sections not aDDlicable to the
town. Passage of the ordinance, or
one similar to it, is necessary if town
residents are to qualify for federallysubsidized
flood insurance.
Referred also to Anderson "to put
in proper form" a proposed change in
the fire department bylaws that
would create a probationary class of
membership. The change has the
department's approval and will go into
effect upon the aldermen s approval.
Approved use of the town hall on a
weekly basis by a Shallotte-area
Weight Watchers group, subject to
pre-emption if the town needs the
meeting room.
Set a public hearing on the proposed
voluntary annexation of five lots
in Brierwood Estates for the board's
March 20 meeting, 7:30 p.m.
Heard that Postmaster Homer
Andrews lias asked the tcwn to consider
a house numbering system;
engineer Boney said he thought lots
had already been numbered by his
?velopment
ff, and stormwater.
To Confirm Roil
;ss, the board called a special meeting
ril 5, for the purpose of confirming the
r the sewer system and to actually let
11, steps that couldn't be taken until 30
e advertising of bids for the project,
be levied to collect up to 25 percent of
;e collection and treatment facilities.
I on front footage, the type of property
ination of both. Payments will be due
? date of confirmation, or by April 5,
i charge no more than $6 per front foot;
mily unit; S100 per room in motel or
ipiex; or SI per square foot of enclosed
r>merc>ai property.
"c been sent to property owners adviswn's
schedule.
i approved, by unanimous vote, an
off-street parking ordinance following
t which no comments were heard. The
res two parking spares for each unit
located within motels, tourist courts,
lominium-type hotels and motels,
ices were required. Mayor Rullington
ouraged building of larger units since
ents were not as strict as for smaller
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