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Holden Beach Study Indicates Groundwater Contamination Problem
BY ETTA SMITH
A preliniinary groundwater study
at Hoiden Beach has revealed the
presence of high levels of Bacteria in
some areas—which could be a healtli
hazard to swinuiicrs or eventually af
fect shcllfishing in the canals.
Dan l-utta of McKim and Creed
Associates engineering firm in Wilm
ington, told the Planning and Zoning
Board last Thursday that some of the
testing wells placed in various areas
on the beach showed high counts of
coliform, a bacteria associated with
septic tank leaching fields.
"Fortunately, the island doe.sn’t
depend on wells for drinking water,
but it (contamination) could be a con
cern as far as swimming and
shellfishing," Latta told the board
and Haskell Hhett, a grants ad
ministrator with the Coastal
r^^-'^sion of the N.C.
ivinimgciiiciu i-fit
Department of Natural Resources
and Community Development.
McKim and Creed was hired last
year by the town to do the study,
which is being fhsanced by a $6,000
Cuasial ruaiiagcineni graiii aihi mat-
ciiiiig town funds. According to Town
Administrator Bob Buck, the study
was initiated to determine the degree
of any threat that groundwater con
tamination from septic tanks may
have on public health.
Latta said 14 testing weils were
placed in 20 locations on the beach.
These sites include canal areas,
where he said a higher count is ex
pected, and both underdeveloped and
highly developed areas off the
canal.:.
According to Latta, one test well
placed near a low population density
area at the west end of the island
showed a surprisingly high reading,
as did wells placed on Sailfish Drive
and Durlum Street. Both Sailfish and
Durham are or. canals.
l.atta said that more tests would be
conducted to determine the con
sistency of tl)e readings and how the
Oyster Festival
Shirts On Sale
T-shirts and sweatshirts promoting the 1987 N.C. Oyster Festival
will be available Friday for purchase at United Carolina Bank’s main
branch in Shallotte.
They can also be ordered by phoning the Shallotte UCB main
branch a day in advance and picked up at branches in Ocean Isle Beach,
Calabash nr Holden Beach.
Adult sweatshirts sell for $13, adult t-shirts tor $8, with extra-large
sizes one additional dollar. Both come in white, gray and several pastel
shades.
Childrens’ shirts will be available at a later date.
The design this year depicts an oyster on a scallop-shell throne with
a scroll proclaiming the South Brunswick Islands "Home of the Na
tional Oyster Shucking Champion.”
National champion, Cathy Carlisle of Boone’s Neck, leaves
September 24 for the international competition in Galway, Ireland.
Shirts will also be available in limited quantities at the South
Brunswick Islands Chamber of Commerce office, tempeearily in Suite 5
of Promenade Office Park.
State Seeks To Have Juvenile
Case Heard !n Superior Court
BY E7TTA SMITH
A Brunswick County Assistant
District Attorney said Tuesday the
slate is seeking to have tlie case of a
juvenile who rammed his truck into
an apartment last month heard in
Superior Court
Napoleon Barefoot, Jr. said
whetlier or not the case will be heard
in the May 18 Superior Court session
depends on if the youth is bound over.
He would not say if the youth would
be tried as an adult
The 15-year-old drove a truck
through a I^iland apartment on
March 24. killing William Guy Bon-
durant II, 21, of Wilmington.
The apartment belongs to brothers
Ricky and James Wagoner, who
were holding a home computer users’
meeting shortly befor the incident oc
curred.
Another occupant of the apart
ment, Brenda Smith, knew the youth
and had spoken to him outside the
apartment earlier.
After she went into the apartment,
the youth drove to the end of a cul-de-
sac, turned around and drove at a
high speed into the apartment.
Barefoot would not comment fur-
Lher on the case, which was heard in
a juvenile court hearing last week.
The law requires that juvenile
hearings be closed to the public.
Square-Rigger 'Elizabeth IT
Docks At Southport City Pier
.She’s here!
The Elizabeth II, North Carolina’s
16th century square-rigged sailing
sliip, can be visiteil at Southport City
Pier daily through April 28.
She will be open daily from 9 a.m.
to 6 p.m. Tours are $3 for adults, $2
for senior citizens and $1.50 for
children ages six through 12. On
board, living history interpreters
portray what life was like for
mariners and colonists who traveled
similar ships in Sir Walter Raleigh’s
expeditions 400 years ago.
The Elizabeth II is a state historic
whose home port is Manteo.
Doberman Cross Needs An Owner
A male Doberman crossbreed pup
is among the pets recommended for
adoption this week by Brunswick
County Animal Control Supervisor
Zcima Babson.
The black and tan pup is three to
four montlis old.
Also listed are a black and brown
female German shepherd and lab
pup, six to eight weeks okl, and a
gray, orange and white female cat.
She has been ueCluweu.
These animals and others can be
seen at the animal shelter Monday
through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. The shelter is located off N.C.
211 south of the U.S. 17 intersection.
Plant Cardens NOW!
Bedding Plants
Vegetable Plants
Garden Seed •Shrubbery
Fruit & Flowering Trees
Pine Straw*Fertilizer
Peat Moss*Mulch
Century Stepping Stones
Landscape Timbers
Mobile Home Steps
(Cement)
Gerbera Daisies
Geraniums
Browis through tho
groenhouto for foliage
pianis i nowering
baikots.
Now Open on Saturdays
till .S
to ssfvs yoli bstt^^
seasonal increase in population will
affect the groundwater.
He sHded #K« o#»i
to the present property owner.
Board memlAtr Jim Griffin said the
completed by .Aug. 31, and if the com
pleted study shows the need, recom
mendations or solutions to the pro
blem will be addressed.
Defer* Action
The board deferred action on draf
ting an ordinance that would regulate
construction on marsh-front lots of
less tlian S,0(X) square-feet, and deter
mine the setbacks to be required on
these lots, until its next meeting.
The proposed ordinance has been
discussed by both the planning and
zoning board and town conunis-
sioners, because of a situation where
lots on Windjammer Drive were res
subdivided to include marshland as
part of the setback requirements for
construction of a house there.
Because the setback area includes
inarshland, the former owner of the
property recently appealed the
town’s issuance of a building permit
standpoint of whether the town wants
to protect the marsh areas or to
the development and density of
marsh-front lots.
He added that it was his understan
ding that the property on Windjam
mer Drive was located in the U.S. Ar
my Corps of Engineers “404 line,”
which is a transitional area from the
marsh to the high-ground line, and
suitable for construction by Corps
standards.
Buck said, “I’his whole problem is
a result of the situation on Windjam
mer, and it’s going to come up every
time someone comes in to apply for a
pemut to build on a nuirsh-front lot.”
He added that he had drafted the
proposed ordinance, which deals
with marsh-front lots which are
already platted. The town's subdivi
sion ordinance already prohibits
building on marsh, said Buck, but the
issue being debated concerns lots
that arc already platted and “which
COntsin niATSh st ths yinwhnrtv
comes to obtain a building permit”
SIWf PHOIOBr IttA SMIIH
Rescue Workers Injured
Shallotte policemen Joey Hoagland (far left). Chuck
Yager and Sgt. Rodney Gause (bending) examine the
garage door that fell on two Shallotte Volunteer Rescue,
Squad workers last Thursday. Dana Moore and Henry
Carter were slightly injured in the accident at the
squad's building on N.C. 179 and Blake Street Both
were taken to the Brunswick Hospital where Moore
received stitches for two lacerations in her head.
Highway AccieJents Down For Easter
Only two relatively minor ac
cidents marred the Easter weekend
in Brunswick County. According to
Ruby Oakley of the N.C. Highway
Patrol, this is low for a holiday
weekend. During Easter week in
1986, 13 accidents were reported on
state highways.
This year, both were one-car ac
cidents in which vehicles overturned.
Atl:30a.m. on April 17, Lyn Carrol
Edwards, 22, of Shallotte, was driv
ing a 1981 Cadillac on rural paved
road 1154, three miles east of
Shallotte, when it ran off the road and
overturned.
State Intervenes
In Access Case
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the coastal management division has
the statutory duty to administer the
Coastal and Estuarine Water Beach
Access Program, and to manage and
protect all public beach accessways,
including the ‘‘foreshwes,” the area
of the ocean beach located between
the average high and low water
marks of the Atlantic Ocean.
The state further alleges in the mo
tion that the property in question in
the lawsuit is so siiuaieii iiiat disposi
tion of the action may impede or im
pair the state’s ability to protect the
public’s right of access.
Another suit involving beach ac
cess is also scheduled to be heard on
.April 27 in the Brunswick County
Superior Court.
'hie suit, filed in 1985 by the Sunset
Beach Taxpayers Association, Albert
N. Wells, Charles L. Smith, Whaley
P. Hunt and Frank Nesmith against
Edward M. Gore and Beach Enter
prises Inc., also claims that an area
on Sunset Beach that was fenced off
in 1978 to keep the public out should
be public by virtue of iiiurriinerit do
main.
The state has filed no motion to in
tervene in that case.
Trooper J.V. Dove said Edwards
was going at a high rate of speed, and
he cliargcd her with reckless opera
tion.
She suffered minor injuries,
treated by a family physician.
Damages to her car were estimated
at $3,000.
Sunday, at about the same time, a
similar accident occurred on Hwy.
130,14 miles west of Shallotte.
Billy Joe Johnson Jr., 24, of Ash,
was driving a 1983 Datsun, when he
ran q££ rOSdj StTU«^ S ^«sd
overturned several times.
Johnson told Trooper L.M.
Ricliardson he had fallen asleep, and
he was charged with careless and
reckless driving.
Johnson was not injured, but a
passenger, Carolyn Wilson, 20, of
Shallotte, suffered Class B injuries
and was treated and released at The
Brunswick Hcspiial.
Damages to the car were about
$5,000.
Other Builnes*
In other business board members:
•Deferred action on
Cviiulua-
Although action was deferred on
the draft ordinance, the majority of
board members did agree that any
draR ordinance should require that
present yard requirements be met,
and building should be pennitted on
lots with less than 5,000 square-feet
above the Corps 404 line, provided
other criteria arc met.
sioners' request to consider an
amendment to the zoning regulations
allowing placement of heating and
air conditioning units on side, front,
or rear-yard setbacks. Independent
of the basic structure.
'They did not reach agreement on
septic tank and drain field and the
distance that pilings should be placed
back from the 404 line.
•Amended the town ordinance that
deals with canal lots with less than
5,000 square feet to include canal lots
where the side yard also faces a
canal. The amendment requires that
pilings on the side yard that faces a
Pisn bs sliced no closor than si*
feet to the bulkhead.
The board also received letters
from residents John Clarke and
Susan and Eari Kendrick. The letters
ask that marsh land not be included
in land that is used for determining
the square footage of a lot
•Appointed absent board members
Gil Bass and Charlotte Nolle to a
committee that will study and recom
mend to commissioners a H-sl of types
of business operatiGns acceptable for
location |n the town. The subject
became an issue recently when n gun
shop was opened on the island.
Typical April
Weather
Ahead
Typical mid- to late April is In the
local weather forecast, with
temperatures expected to average
from the mld-50s at night into the
mid-7as during the day.
Also, about a half-inch of rainfall is
expected, said Shallotte Point
meteorologist Jackson Canady.
For tlie period April 14-19, the
weather was wet and a little on the
cool side.
Canady recorded a maximum high
of 74 degrees on the 19th. The
minimum low was 46 degrees,
recorded on both the 17th and 18th.
An average daily high of 70 degrees
combined with an average nightly
low of 54 degrees for a daily average
temperature of 62 degrees, several
degrees below normal.
Canady recorded 3.28 inches of
precipitation.
“There was definitely a lot of rain
this time,” he said. Much of it fell
during an April 15 thunderstorm.
Sunset
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hold the legal and social obligation to
provide public parking.
The prcgierty owners also heard up
dates on efforts to improve drainage
on the island, an upcoming public
hearing and the status of the high-
rise bridge to the island.
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