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BY RAHN ADAMS
After being told the county can get
"more bang for the buck" by looking
beyond immediate water needs, utility
officials this week endorsed a proposed
$5 million project to put additional
water in southwestern
Brunswick County.
The recommendation, which will
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unanimously approved at Monday's
two-hour Utility Operations Board
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Dredging
BY DOUG RUTTER
For years, residents and property
owners at the east end of Holden
Beach have watched their precious
beachfront erode and disappear into
the ocean.
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dui now mey are watching the
beach grow.
A dredging project that began last
week in Lockwood Folly Inlet is helping
rebuild the island's vulnerable
tip. The project should result in approximately
200,000 cubic yards of
sand being added to the east end of
the strand, an area where erosion
consistently threatens to undermine
or damage Ocean Boulevard and a
number of cottages.
The sand is being sucked from the
bottom of Lockwood Folly Inlet and
piped across the island to the strand
by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
contractor, Cottrell Engineering Corporation
of Chesapeake, Va.
Employee Wendell Davis said the
company is dredging around the
clock, transporting approximately
4,500 cubic yards of sand from the inlet
to the beach in a good day. The
Drug Traffickei
A Shallotte man who pleaded guilty
to cocaine trafficking charges in
September 1987 received a probationary
sentence Monday in
Brunswick County Superior Court.
Judge Henry V. Barnette Jr.
sentenced Joseph Sullivan, 27, to a
$5,000 fine and a suspended seven
year prison term with five years of
supervised probation, according to
the Brunswick County Clerk of
Court's office.
ALso, Sullivan was ordered to perCounty
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Three Brunswick County Commissioners
and County Manager John T.
Smith leave Friday to attend a fiveday
national conference in
Washington, D.C.
Smith said Monday he will accompany
Commission Chairman Frankie
Rabon, Vice Chairman Grace
Beasley and new Commissioner
Gene Pinkerton to the National
Association of Counties' Annual
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meeting in Bolivia.
UOB members Robert Nubel, Ed
Gore, Ernest McGee and D.V. Jones
were present. Commission Chairman
Frankie Rabon, who also is a nonvoting
utility board member, and
Commissioner Kelly Holden sat in on
the latter portion of the meeting.
Prior to the board's vote, consulting
engineer Jav Houston briefly
reviewed three alternatives
presented by his firm to the utility
board last September. The county
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work should last about two months,
he said.
At the beach end of the pipeline, the
spoil sprays directly onto the beach.
As the water runs into the ocean,
Davis said the sand settles on the
beach.
"It's a settling process all of the
time," he said. 'You lose some sand,
but I'm sure you don't lose too
much."
The dark material being added to
the beach is exactly like the sand
typically found on the strand, said
Davis, and will be white once it is
cleaned and dried out.
Holden Beach Mayor John Tandy
said the sand being added to the
beach is probably some of the same
sand lost to erosion over the years.
"That sand that they're putting in
there came from there. We're iust
putting it back to a certain extent."
The local work is part of a $2.3
million U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers maintenance dredging
project in the Atlantic Intracoastal
Waterway.
Davis said the contractors comr
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form 500 hours of community service
work and pay $1,750 in courtappointed
attorney fees.
Sullivan was one of 37 individuals
indicted on cocaine trafficking
charges in June and July 1987 as a
result of work done by the first investigative
grand jury in the county
and state.
Court records show that the defendant
pleaded guilty Sept. 10, 1987, to
conspiracy to traffic in more than 28
grams of cocaine and trafficking in
more man m grams 01 cocaine. His
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Legislative Conference.
The group will leave from the New
Hanover County Airport Friday morning
and return Wednesday afternoon
They will stay in Washington at
the Hotel Ritz Carlton, Smith said.
The conference will be held at the
Washington Hilton.
Smith indicated that he and the
commissioners plan to attend
various committee meetings and
Dmmench
authorized Houston to do the $7,500
study to find short-term solutions to
increasing water needs between
Shallotte and Calabash.
According to the study, short-range
needs can be met if the county build*
a one-million-gallon elevated storage
tank off Ocean Isle Beach Road near
N.C. 179 and an 800-gallon-perminute
booster pump station near the
intersection of N.C. 904 and N.C. 179.
Cost is estimated at about $1.5
million.
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pleted a beach renourishment project
at Carolina Beach before arriving
at Holden Beach last Wednesday.
"What we did up there didn't do
any good," he said, adding that a northeaster
eroded the sand as fast as it
was put down. "It blew it away as
fast as we were pumping it out."
Davis said a storm from the
southeast or southwest could have i
the same effect at Holden Beach, i
"There's no way of telling how long it |
will last," he said. "There's so many i
things that can alter it." i
Mayor Tandy added, "It is one of |
those things where you have to keep i
your fingers crossed. A giant storm (
could get it in a couple of days." I
Once the work is completed in
Lockwood Folly Inlet, the dredge will s
move to Shallotte Inlet where more |
sandy spoil will be pumped onto the <
eastern strand of Ocean Isle Beach 1
The project estimate calls for
about 24,000 cubic yards of sand to be f
piped from the inlet to the beach near (
Shallotte Boulevard. The actual i
amount of sand could be higher. I
The corps of engineers estimate at
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sentencing was continued from term
to term of Superior Court until it was
called this week by the district attorney's
office.
Following testimony from an SBI
agent Monday, Judge Barnette found
that Sullivan had provided "substantial
assistance" to investigators?a
finding which permitted the judge to ]
impose less than the mandatory jf
minimum sentence of seven years in *
prison and a $50,000 fine for each |
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workshops, as well as meet with the t:
state's legislative delegation. He said fi
he was unaware of any specific lob- j
bying efforts the commissioners may %
undertake.
Excluding meals, the trip will cost
county taxpayers $3,892. Smith said J
roundtrip airline tickets are $178 per I
person; hotel rooms are $120 per person
per day; and conference
registration is $195 per person.
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However, Houston indicated that
by the time the tank and pump station
could be in operation, the water
system would face additional growthrelated
needs that would require attention.
When the study was released
last September, the projected operation
date for the "immediate phase"
was June 1989.
The alternative recommended by
Houston and endorsed Monday by the
UOB involves construction of a water
line from Shallotte to Grissettown
lursday, March 2, 1989
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len Beach
Holden Beach was only 130,000 cubic
yards. Davis said the iniet had apparently
shoaled in more between the
time the estimates were made and
the project was begun.
Ocean Isle's eastern end has experienced
erosion problems similar
to those at Holden Beach.
Last fall, two homes on East Second
Street were condemned by the
town and later destroyed by order of
the owner after erosion had caused
rear steps and porches to collapse
and also had exposed hotli septic
tanks. Since then, at least one other 1
jast-end property owner has indicated
an interest in moving his
beachfront home. i
Other areas in Brunswick County '
scheduled to be dredged as part of 1
his project are the Shallotte Inlet 1
crossing and the mouth of the
_yoekwood Folly River. i
Corps of Engineers estimates call
or the removal of 11,000 cubic yards 1
>f sand from Shallotte Inlet crossing
rnd about 5,000 cubic yards from 1
^ockwood Folly River. 1
(See DREDGING, Page 2-A)
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DRIVING WAS NO PROBLEM lor
motorists Friday after daylight, althoi
on Water
along Old Shallotte Road, then to a imn
proposed one-million-gallon elevated mer
tank on N.C. 904 at Old Georgetown curi
Road. Old
Also, a 2,200-gallon-per-minute rest
booster station would be built near nati
the intersection of N.C. 904 and N.C. Oce
179, and line would extend along Old cou
Georgetown Road to the Calabash $5,0
area. Estimated cost is $5,070,000. Tl
Houston said the main difference the
between that plan and two other take
alternatives, which share the same
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Series Of G
Zoning Fori
BY RAHN ADAMS
Why is county zoning necessary? mur
Why is zoning desirable?
Brunswick County planning officials
will pose those two questions Buil
to local residents?and try to supply .p,
convincing answers?at nine public Visii
meetings in March and early April.
The Brunswick County Planning ty B
Board last Wednesday set a schedule
for the forums, which county com- '
missioners ordered early last month
to gauge puouc sentiment Before the i^j
county pursues the often disputed l\l
issue further.
Last Wednesday night's IVi-hour pf
planning board meeting also included
discussion of road-naming and Lc
house-numbering projects that are Natl
necessary before the county can im- wou
plement a proposed 911 emergency c'as
telephone system. Tc
Alan Holden was the only planning ed
board member absent from the ses- Brui
sion, which had been continued from W|U
the board's Feb. 15 regular meeting, this
hold
Forums Scheduled beer
The idea to put the zoning issue Oi
before the public originated at a Feb. Com
1 commissioners' meeting in which ches
Commissioner Kelly Holden said rest
work on an ordinance?in conjune- acci
tion with a public education pro- sign
gram?should begin as soon as possi- seas
ble. Rt
However, other commis- Bea<
sioners?including Gene Pinkerton, up
who supported zoning in his election prec
campaign last fall?indicated that inch
citizens should have input on the sub- Brui
ject even before a proposed or- U.S.
dinance is drafted. men
At the suggestion of Commissioner Lc
Kenny Ludlum, a non-voting plann- dela;
ing board member, two zoning hour
meetings were slated for four of the class
county's five districts. The board that
decided to hold only one forum in ing.
District 3 (Southport-Oak Island Wi
area) after officials noted that only Brui
about 20 percent of the district's plex
residents live outside municipalities, but *
County taxpayers and residents that
can attend the forum that is most beco
convenient to them. The meetings Johr,
are scheduled as follows: Br
March 9?Sea Trail Clubhouse; elos?
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Sunset Beach snowfall created some
Jgh the one-inch southwestern Brunswick
Project
mediate phase, is that the recomlded
proposal puts water closer to
rent growth areas, mainly along
Georgetown Road. To get similar
dts with the other two alterves?both
of which take the
an Isle Beach Road route?the
nty would spend between
50,000 and $5,510,000.
v1 engineer said the first nha.se nf
recommended alternative would
! about two years to design and
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larch 10?Lockwood Folly Comlity
Building;
larch 16?Shallotte Town Hall;
larch 17?Leland Community
ding;
larch 27?CP&L Nuclear Plant
tors Center;
larch 28?Town Creek Communiuilding;
See PLANNERS, Page 2-A)
ids To Pay
:>r Snow Day
ical students can thank Mother
ire for making them lose what
Id have been a day off from
ses this week.
?make up classes that were misslast
Friday due to snow,
nswick County Public Schools
operate on a regular schedule
Friday iMarch 3), instead of
ing the teacher workday that had
i planned.
itlying sections of Brunswick
ity received from one to three inof
snow last Friday, while the
of the county saw relatively little
imulation in the area's first
ificant winter storm of the
on.
sidents in the Calabash, Sunset
:h, Seaside and Ash areas woke
to about an inch of frozen
ipitation. Approximately three
es of snow fell in northern
lswick County, slowing traffic on
74-76, according to law enforcet
agencies.
ical school officials initially
yed the start of school for two
s last Friday, then cancelled
>es altogether when it appeared
weather conditions were worsen
ith mainly flurries in Bolivia, the
lswick Coimty Government Comopened
on schedule last Friday
closed at 3 p.m., due to concern
wet roads would ice up and
me treacherous, said Sheriff
i C. Davis.
unswick Community College
:d at noon.
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unusual roadside scenery in
t County.