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BY SUSAN USHEF
Just as access to the beaches is b<
ficult as coastal development contir
water is also becoming increasi
Brunswick County and all along tli
coast.
Statewide there are 45 points at
could have access to 23 inlets, rep<
baugh, shorefront access coordinator
sion of Coastal Management. But onl
public access?that is, are in publi
public roads and parking areas prov
these are in Brunswick County.
Last Friday, the Coastal Resot
voted to ask the General Assembly to
for the acquisition of one inlet access
(the "foreseeable future."
The action came during the seconi
meeting at Cape Fear Technical In
and the Coastai Resources Aavi
(CRAC). Ocean Isle Mayor LaDar
member of the CRC.
The funding should be above and b<
propriated for ocean and estuarinc
resolution stated, and should be desii
cess.
Commission members also su?ge,
deveiop a iong-ierm pian for iniei aci
access be acquired in areas of high
trations and that public transportati
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Standards I
A Duke Universiiy faculty member
argued before a coastal panel in
Wilmington last Thursday against
against certain "best professional
judgments" proposed by the state
Division of Environmental Management
for evaluating the impact of
development projects on adjoining
shellfishing waters.
Miguel Medina, associate professor
of Duke's Engineering School,
attended the Coastal Resources Commission
meeting at Cape Fear
Technical Institute on behalf of
uvtiin isle Beach developers Odell
Williamson and (Mayor) taDane
Williamson, along with two attorneys
fiiotn the Raleigh and Rocky Mount
law firm of Sprulll & Spruili
A day earlier, a CRC House committee
delayed a vote on H.B. 540,
"111,11 nuuiu u,rc the -tote tc consider
uses of ad]acent waters before
issuing permits for coastal development
Members of the House Water
and Air Resources Committee want
certain parts of a substitute bill
clarified. The bill is intended to protect
coastal waters from problems
associated with development, such
as stcrmwater ninc'f and inadequate
sewage disposal.
Thursday, the CHC's planning and
special issues committee recommended
CRC endorsement of the bill.
Odell Williamson noted that con
sideration of water quality degradation
as a ground for CAMA permit
denial is already covered by Environmental
Management Commission
administrative rule.
At present. Die CRC does not
bave to consider the possible uses of
water before issuing permits under
the Coastal Area Management Act.
But the Environmental Management
Commission, which comments on
CAMA permit applications, is required
to consider water uses before
making its recommendations to the
CRC.
In his presentation, Medina maintained
that a number of standards on
which Die proposed judgements are
baed are invalid, such as the use of
fecal coliform bacteria to indicate ur
an runoti pauiogen levels, ine use ol
a 100-year. 24-hour storm; and ase of
a 10 percent impervious limit on lot
development.
George Everett of DEM noted that
the CRC must comply with the fecal
cotiforni standard by law. Also, he
said, the Environmental Management
Commission had given the division
a choice of using either the
100-year. 24-hour storm or the worst
storm on record.
The "best professional
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c ownership with Commission notes
ided?and none of before houses beg:
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trees Commission In Brunswick C<
i appropriate funds has destroyed the
t point per year for right of way. Th
potential problem
I day of a two-day ty, the report conl
stitute of the CRC Five other inlet
sory Commission general public i*
ie Bullington is a under private owi
let from Ocean Isl
ivond the funds ap- River from Casw
; access, the CRC and New Inlet fro
gnated for inlet ac- Also limiting p
County are the pr
sted that the state River and Mad 1
quisition, that inlet from ine Sunset I
population concen- All but one acce
on be encouraged. ed. The state own:
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judgements," as proposed. Would be
applied to all CAMA major permits
in the 75-foot area of environmental
concern, in the coastal area only, and
with no distinction made between
open and closed shellfishing waters
Alone with the 10 percent impervious
surface, at least 30 feet of undisturbed
vegetated buffer is proposed.
Medina analyzed rainfall records
from Wilmington and modeled soil
factors, rainfall from the design
storm, impervious surface and fecal
coliform runoff from Ocean Isle
Beach.
Hp little different'** ox*
ists between runoff fecal concentrations
between 10 percent impervious
utu) 40 percent tnpervtoua surfaces.
Medina mo meet with the Division
of Environmental Management staff
to discuss his Ideas and the need for
more site-specific data to model
onnctnl aroas
Mayor Bullington lias expressed
concern that the proposed professional
judgments (initially labeled
guidelines i don't take into consideration
communities such as Ocean Isle
that are installing sewer systems to
reduce water pollution problems She
said adoption of tlie rules could
restrict the anticipated development
at Ocean Isle Beach on which plans
for the sewer system were
developed, further limiting the
town's ability to pay for the system.
Standards for shellfish arc likely to
be violated if runoff from areas of
medium to high development are
discharged in adjoining estuarine
waters, according to the Divisionof
Knvnoiimental report, "Coastal
Development and Shellfish Water."
reviewed by George Kverctt during
the Thursday discussion on stormwater
management.
The state, Bob Benton of the
shellfish sanitation section said, uses
a combination of bacteriological and
wholesale I
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:>unty there are four points at which
/e down a public road to within close
et. but these points provide limited to
one each at Sunset Beach (Tubbs Ine
Beach (Shallotte Inlet) and two at
>ckwood Folly Inlet). Parking is
t right of way at all but Sunset Beach.
;ach of the areas is in private ownerti,
a report to the Coastal Resources
, " cars parked at the inlet for years
an to be built; now as houses are conking
area is publicly available on the
mnty, at all but Sunset Beach erosion
public road and parking areas in the
at limits public access and creates
s of encroachment on private propertinued.
access points are inaccessible to the
rcause both the land and road are
lership. These access to Shallotte Inle
and Holden beaches, the Cape Fear
ell Beach, and the Cape Fear River
m Bald Head Island,
ublic access to inlets in Brunswick
ivate ownership of Bird Island (little
ntets) and Mad Inlet is inaccessible
leach side by car
ss point in the county is privately own
s land on the south side of New Inlet al
oposed
frong
shoreline surveys anad hydrographii
studies in determining shellfisl
closures.
The DEM study also suggests tha
construction and operation o
mannas can adversely affect watc
quality, as can on-site scwagi
systems located in inapproprlat
sites
Staff member Ralph t,'antra
presented a draft of proposed watei
quality policies that emphasize th<
value of coastal waters as a natura
and economic resource.
Specifically the draft recommend:
the commission not permit develop
menl that has a lugn probability o
degiading watc: quality; ucoiunutt
muni to upKi'Htle existing develop
meiit; support for liasintvlde vtate
management; and adoption c
development standards to contri
inn off.
Alternative methods fur managin,
stormwater include limiting the den
an) in ucveiupmetil, requinni
developers to submit stormwate
management plans, requiring bul
fers to limit "sheetflow" runoff; pru
tecting shallow groundwater source
b) regulating use of ponds for wute
detention; and expanding tin
estuarine shoreline tnea of en
vironmental concern beyond 75 fee
landward of coastal waters.
Of special importance ii
Hrunswick County, the re|>ort pro
puses the Commission conside
developing regulations that wouli
establish criteria for development o
single family homes on the small lot
common on the state's barrie
Islands These small lots sutidividei
before the rules came up, may not 1*
able to meet the proposed bes
management standards.
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market but none '>/ them measure
up to Dual In frekf u(hn fiekl. year
after y*:ar. i ve watched them all 1
perform And once a grower tees I
Dual work m his (Mm torn. ?oy I
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than likely to Hit/ with Dual
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Zeke's Island, but there is no road.
Inlet access surfaced as a commissi
March when a citizen argued that devel
New River Beach Club would block a re
tionally had provided public access to N?
The commission upheld issuance of tl
asked for a Division of Coastal Manage]
accessibility to the state's inlet.
While many of the 45 access points ma)
by ORV's, boats, by foot or cars, the rep
publicly owned land and roads as provi
longterm public access to inlets.
On Friday, the commission also:
On staff recommendation, denied
variance on a Holden Beach canal lot 01
Heniford. Represented by William R. Wil
meeting, Heniford had been granted a
permit on condition he realign a prop
nine feet landward of mean high watt
>itonu a older cement revetment Tho
would allow Heniford to "recover some
erosion gully," while protecting a slgni
dwarf cord grass The bulkhead would ti
of an adjoining wall and the approved i
not expected to result in any genuine
Heniford.
' -Approved an amended land use plai
that involvpd rpHnauifiratlnn of 115
southwest edge of the city from conservi
t productive to transition. The change
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>f crew from Wilmington hns nearly coir
'I (Ioii of u new concrete und steel brld,
Itoad, the road connecting U.S. 17 am
g lieurh Causeway that has been closed
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r A Sluillottc police officer buzzing
e through town on u white motorcycle?a
rarity now -will soon
t become a sight o( the past.
Town aldermen voted unanimously
i last Wednesday night to "get out o(
* the motorcyle business." putting the
r police department's Honda 450 up (or
J biiLv Proceeds of the sale will be
f returned to the department
? "It hasn't been ridden since
r Christmas." estimated Ahlcrinan
t David Clause as he nuide the suggesP
tlon. "1 think it's time to get out of the
t motorcyle business I never did think
we needed it."
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THE BRUNSWICK BEACOI
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modate a proposed p
on concern in tion of the area outsi
opment of the the city and it would
?d that tradi- 'Jointly adopted w
iw River Inlet. object "in the most
ic permit, but posed 63-page over
ment study on cedures Act. The
legislature's author
t be accessible agencies. Natural R<
tort focused on ment Secretary The
ding adequate "goes one step farthe
It gives the lcgislatu
It would, for insl
ministrative judges
a request for disputes over regulai
wned by Davis ing from panels sucl
lliamson at the the governor. That
major CAMA made by the CHC or
osed bulkhead licard by these judg
r rather than their own hearings,
proposed line Thirteenth Distric
! portion of an Beach has said tlx
ificant area of "more responsible a
e into the wing The bill was app
alignment was House and was to g(
' hardship for 'Adopted a scrie:
quality that were 1
i for Southport CUAC Coastal Roui
acres at the courage activities ir
ation and rural tion, coastal develo]
would accom- education.
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IBl- mutlllciuini r th? l 1
ipleted construe- the side wheel Ri
Re on Four Mile pavlng He predl
i the Ocean Isle month. The bridg
lor several mou- from the 1950s.
s To Give U|
ARrced Alderman Wilton Ilnrrelson,
"I never did either."
'Die department lidded the llondn
In mid-June 1984. trading a larger
and less appropriate cycle that the
town had confiscated several years
earlier for the white Honda.
At the time, Chief Wayne ( ampbcl!
predicted officers would save lime
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Inlets
ilamied unit development, the porde
the limits would be annexed by
receive urban services,
ith the CRAC a resolution voting to
rigorous possible terms" to a prohaul
of the Administrative Prochanges
would expand the
ity to oversee executive-branch
;sources and Community Developimas
Rhodes said Friday the bill
t than (gubernatorial veto power),
re veto power over the governor,
.ance, establish a system of adwho
would conduct hearings on
tions and alleged violations stcmmi
as the CRC ttiat are appointed by
means that appeals of decisions
regulations created by it would be
es. Currently the agencies conduct
1 Hep. David Redwine of Ocean Isle
' bill would uuike state agencies
ind responsive" to tin- public,
roved by a party-line vote in the
> to the Senate
5 of resolutions relating to water
>ased on rcconunendations of Die
uitablc Scries. The resolutions cni
the areas of nonpoint source pollupment
density, waste disposal and
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inrds arc up, the way will Ik- clear for
Icled (he road could reopen within a
;c replaces a wooden structure dating
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and money by responding to traffic
colls with the two-wheeler. Operating
costs wore estimated nt 50 mpg compared
to II to 13 mph with standard
sedans At tlie time, all hut one of the
tegular and reserve officers had
motorcylc licenses.
Bids will lie considered at the
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