Lockwood Fo
BY DOUG RUTTEK
A new theory on pollution in Lockwood Folly River
and a potential solution has gained quick support from
local fishermen, town commissioners and state officials
involved in shellfish management.
During a meeting last week of the local conservation
group Save Our Shellfish, area clammers and
oystermen agreed that restricted water flow in and
around the river is at least part of the reason for pollution
problems in Lockwood Folly River.
John F. Holden, a resident of Holden Beach for
mnro fHor* ?0 tmn^ ?J??1 "? 11 ~
uiouvujaiis, luuuuaucu me ineory wmcn received
widespread support from shellfishermen and others
in attendance.
He said increased water flow around the nver could
be achieved by cutting through a sandbar which has
formed on the extreme western tip of Long Beach and
allowing the river to flow as it did some 15 years ago.
According to Holden, the sand peninsula has been
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Dredging of the first five canals east of the Ocean Isle B<
began last week in the canal west of Concord Street. G&
Holden Beach is doing the excavation work, and the total co!
Shallotte Will Be
BY DOUG BUTTER recommendation to
Shallotte will increase its Wednesday,
wastewater treatment capacity by Employees will laj
about 70 percent over the next two 15,000 feet of irrigat
months, with town employees doing pand the spray field,
the bulk of the sewer plant expansion wire fence around th
work. proximately three ac
Town aldermen decided last week raise dikes and c
to allow town employees to perform monitoring wells. Of
most of the work instead of hiring the town has already
subcontractors. They expect the engineering fees and
move to save the town more than struction of a 25-foot-<
$34,000. well.
If all the work were contracted out, Shallotte will spen<
the job would cost approximately to hire a contractor to
$72,625, compared to $38,500 doing bush-hog the land
part of it in-house, according to con- employees begin on t
suiting engineer J. Finley Boney. After seeing the i
"An nwflll 1M r?f tHic txr/wlr Kn U-11?J -i -
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done by town forces," he said in a tract all of the work
Lewis, Waters Nam
BY RAHN ADAMS
Two Bolivia residents?a former *5
sheriff's deputy and a former in- A
school suspension coordinator?are j
Brunswick County newest
magistrates. Jm.t 1
Elizabeth "Rendy" Lewis, 40, and ^ wgS '
Wiley Waters, 50, were appointed last iJHE'Sjpr month
by Resident Superior Court ,
Judge Giles Clark to replace retired f . \ffimagistrates
S.A. Sue of Leland and Uwig '' 1 *
Ephraim Swain of Southport.
Mrs. Lewis?the former County," Mrs. Lewis
deputy?was sworn in as magistrate last week. "I feel it's i
on Feb. 17. She has been a member of in my career in la\
of the Brunswick County Sheriff's There's a lot to learn
Department for the past 13 years. Waters, who had <
"It's a change, but I feel I'm still in-school suspensioi
helping the people of Brunswick South Brunswick Mid
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Rep. David Redwine says he ex- Carolina Shores is (
perts stiff opposition to a bill in- Town of Calabash,
troduced last week that would incor- Because of that, F
i porate the Village of Carolina Shores would probably be c
subject to a referendum. N.C. League of Muni
House Bill 323 was introduced at similar note, he earl
the request of the Carolina Shores the bill might have di
POA after approximately two years approval because the
of meetings, surveys and studies. like incorporations tc
If approved by the General tion.
Assembly and by voters in a fall Last March Calabs
v|fc referendum, Carolina Shores would cil adopted a resolutii
become Brunswick County's 17 tion to annex a large t
mun icipality. include Carolina Shor
However, incorporation of must remain on file a
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Ily River
"It appears that the river
never really gets flushed
out."
?John Holden
Hoiden Beach
gradually developing for more than a dozen years and
has cut off the free circulation of water from the river
through Eastern Channel and Lockwood Folly Inlet into
the Atlantic Ocean.
Prior to 1975, he said there was no sandbar and
water in Lockwood Folly River flowed freely through
Eastern Channel to the ocean.
Without good circulation of water between the
ocean and the river, he said pollution stays in the river
E BRUNSWICK BEACON Shallotte, North Carolina,
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inal Dredging Begins
each causeway should be about $280,000. Dredge spoil is
G Dredging of system on Craven Street
it of the project
I
jgin Sewer Plant E>
the board last expansion. Labor cost was the main
difference, said Boney.
' approximately The expanded irrigation field will
don pipe to ex- be situated on about 14 acres of a
erect a barbed 27-acre tract of land across from the
le site, seed ap- existing plant on Forest Drive in the
:res with grass, northeast section of town. After mononstruct
three ths of negotiations, the land was purthe
total cost, chased last year for approximately
paid $12,000 for $54,000.
I $3,000 for con- The existing facility has a
leep monitoring wastewater treatment capacity of
120,000 gallons per day. With the exi
close to $1,500 pansion, Boney said the daily capacii
clear, grub and ty will increase 86,100 gallons to a
before town total of 206,100 gallons,
heir work. The added sewage capacity will
estimated cost, allow the town to lift a long-standing
proposal to con- "moratorium" on sewage treatment
involved in the allocations to large commercial
led To Vacant Magi
1984, took the oath of office last
"I think it's going to be an interesting
and challenging job first of
Baa. all," Water said, "and I also believe
1? ' pA it'll be a rewarding one."
3 BP Both new magistrates will parl|r\
y^vl ticipate in a two-week training
course soon at the Institute of
W, jk i'l%T Government in Chapel Hill. They
Waters "" work under the direction of Chief
District Court Judge William C. Gore
told the Beacon jr,
i step up for me Mrs. Lewis, the wife of Wayne
v enforcement. Lewis, is a 1967 graduate of Bolivia
High School. She has 17 years of law
xtordinated the enforcement experience, having
l program at worked as a dispatcher for the i
die School since Southport Police Department and i
>ects Opposition
I
jppostd by the board can take the next step, adoption
of a resolution of intent to annex,
tedwine said it Meanwhile, the town has commisopposed
by the sioned a feasibility study to detercipalities.
On a mine what areas, if any, it can afford
ier he had said to annex. Presently town officials
fficulty gaining don't anticipate an effort to annex
! House doesn't Carolina Shores in the near future as
> avoid annexa- several other smaller areas have
higher priority with the town,
ish Town Coun- Still, Mayor Doug Simmons told
on of considera- the Beacon in a December 1988 inter;ract
that would view that incorporation of Carolina
es. That motion Shores would limit ability of either
year before the community to grow.
n Blamed On Ri
and causes areas to be closed to shellfishing and also
limits growth of the oysters and clams.
"It appears that the river never really gets flushed
out," said Holden. Pollution in the river has gradually
become worse over the past eight years as the west end
of Long Beach has shoaled, he added.
Since last summer, shellfishermen have been
greatly restricted in their harvest in Lockwood Folly,
which has traditionally accounted for about 40 percent
of the county's shellfish.
The state shut down about 153 acres of shellfish
waters last August and reopened the area briefly last
month. The lower section of the river, downstream of
Genoes Point, has been closed and reopened a number
of times since last fall due to changing pollution levels.
SOS President Annie Smigiel said restricted flow
has a lot to do with the ongoing problem of pollution in
the river and that improving flow would help clean up
the shellfish beds.
Thursday, March 9, 1989 25c
f - y Bat
Shirley Babso
^ Malcolm Grisse
staff photo bv ooug rutiep both want the jol
mittment.
The new cliaii
i being pipe from the dredge to a dike John Dozier of Be
who has held the
The convention
the Public Assen
Brunswick Coi
Center in Bolivia
r v-\r-n assistant to Gov.
.pansion will be the guest
Support for th<
enterprises seeking entrance into fm?r6inf> at prei
town in late February
Although there is no official across ^e count;
moratorium, the town has been county conventic
unable to commit any sizeable por- P^inct meel
tion of its capacity since the end of Dozier said in
1937 month that he
The plant, which first opened in the voluntee^s fr
summer of 1983, is now handling Pres'den
about 90,000 gallons of wastewater "Obfirtson to be 1
per day, but a good portion of the re- tu ^' as the
maining capacity is reserved for convention. Both
various developers. pected to seek
Mayor Jerry Jones said in an inter- delegates,
view last year that numerous re- Hospitalized tx
quests for sewer service have come ing asthma p
l'n rtiror fVio nod 1^ nn/1 lUt ? ' -
At* vt?i uiv paov A*/ iiAuuuis anu nidi uiiavcuiauie inis }
several developers have contacted The man wh<
him about locating in Shallotte once county campaigi
the plant is expanded. Leland, had con:
chairman but ha;
mind. He has bet
n channeled his sut
IStrate rOSTS A Mary Kay cj
Babson served as
N.C. Highway Patrol in party in 1982, has
Elizabethtown before joining the ^or 27 years and
Brunswick County Sheriff's Depart- state convention
ment as a dispatcher in 1976. She member of the F
became a road deputy two years l'on ?f Women i
[ater County Republics
She served ei
Waters, who is married to the Brunswick Count
former Earthly Harts field of Bolivia, tion, including fot
is a Baltimore, Md., native and a 1955 represented th?
graduate of Dunbar High School in Brunswick Cor
Baltimore. In 1982, he retired as a Board of Trustees
master sergeant after 26 years with Mrs. Babson al
the U.S. Air Force and moved to dent of the Brunsv
Brunswick County. He was a on Youth Needs,
substitute teacher in local public She coordinatet
schools for two years before becom- county campaign
ing in-school suspension coordinator as 1980 county c
at South Brunswick Middle School. for the late Sen. J
To Carolina Sho
Last week Redwine also proposed tain state benefits
that the state levy a two-cent House Bill 322, (
cigarette manufacturers tax. He a co-sponsor, v
estimates it would bring in $370 $967,186 for sup
million in state revenues, which Violence Prevent
could be used to finance salary in- Centers,
creases for teachers and state
employees, he suggested. Every Of that sum, a !
pack of cigarettes sold outside the go each year of t
state and to foreign countries would Coalition Against
be subject to the tax. According to Inc. Another $30,1
Redwine, this would mean that con- go to each of the 6
sumers in foreign countries and other centers in existeni
states would pay a large portion of These include Ho]
munity Development to receive cer- Brunswick Countj
/
istricted Flow
"It's probably not a cure-all, but at least it would be
a step in the right direction," she said.
In addition to town officials at Holden Beach, state
officials involved in shellfish management have also
said the proposal makes sense in terms of allowing the
river to purge itself easier.
Rich Carpenter, regional manager with the N.C.
Division of Marine Fisheries in Wilmington, said circulation
at the mouth of the river is not adequate for
shellfish. He said the state stoppped shell planting on
the south side of Sheep Island about 10 years ago
because of a slow growth rate.
"The idea they've got is very logical," said
Carpenter, who attended last week's meeting. "I don't
see any way it could hurt. All it could do is heln ihp
? ? r
water circulate."
Poor circulation can slow the dilution of polluted
shellfish waters and lengthen the time they remain clos(See
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>son, Grissett
?k County
>ublican Seat
n ui xji isseiiuwn ,
man will succeed iL %&AJk
tiling Spring Lakes, babson grissett
post for six years.
begins at 2 p.m. in She was appointed in 1987 by Gov.
lbly Building at the Martin to the Personnel Administrainty
Government tbn Commission for Public School
. Alan Pugh, special Employees.
James G. Martin, According to Mrs.
speaker. Babson,"because of years of hard
2 candidates began work and determination by a small
:inct meetings held group of people from all over the
at polling places county, and many new Republicans
y. Delegates to the moving into the county," she eonin
were elected at tinued, "we have grown to the extent
tings. that we have the opportunity to elect
an interview last more Republicans to county office."
expects supporters The party worker said her efforts
om the campaign of with this core group and with newly
Pat (See TWO SEEK, Page 2-A)
ughly visible again
y were at the last
candidates are exsupport
of these Planners Change
.cause of, recuT- Meeting Schedule
roblem. he was As a result of scheduling rnnnintc
iveek for comment, two changes have been made in the
) ran Robertson's Brunswick County Planning Board's
i, Ike Williams of upcoming slate of public forums on
iidered running for countywide zoning,
s since changed his According to Planning Director
:n quoted as having John Harvey, a meeting that was to
>port to Grissett. be held on Friday, March 10, at
smetics consultant. Lockwood Folly Community Building
secretary of county has been rescheduled for Wednesbeen
a member of it day, March 22.
a delegate to the Also, a forum that initially was set
since 1976. She is a for March 28 at Town Creek Comtepublican
Federa- munity Building has been changed to
ind the Brunswick Friday, March 10.
n Women. The public forum series begins toght
years on the day (Thursday) at the Sea Trail
y Board of Educa- Clubhouse near Sunset Beach. All of
ir as chairman, and the zoning meetings begin at 7:30
it board on the p.m.
nmunity College Other forums are scheduled for
! for four years. March 16, Shallotte Town Hall;
so served as presi- March 17, Leland Community
vick County Council Building; March 27, CP&L Nuclear
Plant Visitors Center; March 29,
lSen. Jesse Helms' Hood's Creek Community Building;
from 1972-1978, and March 30, Waccamaw Community
ampaign chairman Building; and April 5, Public
lohn East. Assembly Building.
m I
res rroposai
t. taxes to North Carolina.
)f which Redwine is Also, 1 percent of the revenues
rould appropriate raised would be used to study alterport
of Domestic native uses of tobacco,
ion Programs and
However, the Tobacco Growers
Association of North Carolina op?20,000
grant would poses the proposal and officials with
he bieiuiium to the the N.C Farm Bureau Federation
Domestic Violence and N.C. State Grange have said they
XX) per year would oppose more taxes on tobacco pro1
domestic violence ducts as unfair,
jeasof Feb. 1,1988. House Bill 424, which would allow
oe Harbor Home in seasonal employees of the Departr.
ment of Natural Resources and Comi