Ocean Isle Board May Seek Political
Backing For Inlet Study
BY DOUG R UTTER
Occan Isle Beach officials next
week will talk about whether the
town should go after political sup
port for a Shallottc Inlet dredging
study which the federal government
says it can't afford.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engine
ers doesn't have the money avail
able to pay for a study to Find out if
an inlet dredging project would be
worthwhile, said Marty van Duyne,
spokesperson at the Wilmington
district office.
In response to requests from local
officials and North Carolina's two
senators, the district office last fall
requested money for a study from
the division office in Atlanta.
However, federal budget prob
lems have left the Corps of Engine
ers in a position where it can't start
any new studies not specifically au
thorized by Congress.
Ms. van Duyne said several corps
programs, including small naviga
tion projects, have been "severely
curtailed" under the president's pro
posed budget for next fiscal year.
"In order to keep from ovcrcom
mitting ourselves on those pro
grams, any study not already under
way or in the construction phase will
be terminated," she said. "Others not
on board will not be started."
The only way the corps could
study the inlet is if Congress autho
rizes it. "It's in the hands of the
town to pursue it from that avenue,"
Ms. van Duync said. "They would
have to express their concerns to
their elected officials."
Ocean Isle Beach Mayor Betty
Williamson said she plans to talk
with town commissioners aboiH the
proposed study at their meeting next
Tuesday morning.
"I really can't speculate on what
the board's response may be," she
said. "We arc very concerned about
the inlet and keeping it open to boat
traffic. It really means a lot to our
beach and our area."
Shallotte Inlet sits between Ocean
Isle Beach and Holdcn Beach and
links the Shallotte River to the
Atlantic Ocean. Fishermen and other
boaters have complained for years
about the need for dredging.
The corps district office received
letters last fall from U.S. Senators
"We are very concerned about
the inlet and keeping it open to
boat traffic. It really means a
lot to our beach and our area."
? Betty Williamson
Occan Isle Beach mayor
Jesse Helms and Terry Sanford re
questing the study, but the push to
get the inlet dredged started at the
local level.
Occan Isle Beach officials have
headed locai political efforts to get
maintenance of the inlet in the
hands of the Corps of Engineers.
Responding to requests from
boaters ant' commercial fishermen,
the town's board of commissioners
passed a resolution last June asking
the corps to examine the inlet to see
if dredging is needed to keep it open
to boat traffic.
Occan Isle Beach leaders pointed
out in the resolution that the inlet is
often used by visitors to the area
and is important to the island com
munity's tourist industry.
They also said that commercial
fishing is an important part of the
local economy nnd that fishermen
need access to the ocean through
the inlet
Brunswick County Commission
ers followed suit last October, adop
ting a resolution of their own asking
the corps to help maintain the inlet <
and keep it open to boat traffic.
The Corps of Engineers dredges
the lower portion of the Shallottc
River every few years and the inlet
crossing in the Atlantic Intracoastal
Waterway about once a year.
Brunswick County residents have
had recent success getting approval
and funding for special waterway
projects.
Within the past year. Congress
has funded a study in Lockwood
Folly Inlet and authorized a one
time dredging project in Eastern
Channel near the mouth of the
Lockwood Folly River.
The Corps of Engineers district
office is presently studying the inlet
east of Holden Beach to find out if
its construction has hurt boat traffic
in the area.
Soine local fishermen and con
cerned residents think the Corps of
Engineers made a mistake when it
dredged the inlet several decades
ago.
They say it has caused shoaling
in Eastern Channel, which is the
natural inlet between the river and
o:can, and has prevented bacterial
pollution from escaping the re
source-rich river.
Congressman Charlie Rose has
promised to seek money next fiscal
year for a demonstration dredging
project in Eastern Channel.
Holding Company Only Bidder For Bricklanding Plantation
BY SUSAN USHER
Only one bidder showed up last Thursday for
what was widely considered to be the largest
foreclosure sale ever to take place in Brunswick
County.
Brick Landing Plantation golf and residential
development went on the auction block at noon
at the Brunswick County Courthouse in Bolivia.
Diana Morgan, Brunswick County Clerk of
Superior Court, said that the five groups taken to
gether constitute the largest foreclosure in the
county of which she is aware. She has been ei
ther clerk, assistant clerk or deputy clerk of court
for 16 years.
The only bidder, Intracoastal Holding Inc., of
fered S4.25 million total for the five blocks auc
tioned, subject to any upset bid(s) offered by
April 8. Intracoastal, a subsidiary of Pioneer
Savings Bank of Rocky Mount, assumed posses
sion of the properties from the developers last
September. Pioneer then began foreclosure pro
ceedings against Intracoastal.
The blocks of property auctioned ranged in
size from 2.10 acres to more than 300 acres.
They included improvements such as a club
house, maintenance facilities, sales office, two
18-hole golf courses and unsold properties ? land
or units ? in Mariners Wacche, Inlet Wacchc and
Southern Oaks condominiums, Oakbrook patio
homes, Windsong Villas detached town homes.
Fair Winds town homes, and single-family resi
dential lots in Lake Forest, the Lakeview tract al
so known as The Parks at Ocean Pines Ltd., and
five lots at Sunset Beach provided for property
owners' parking at the beach.
Bricklanding Plantation overlooks the Atlantic
Intracoastal Waterway at Brick Landing on one
side and has its main entrance on N.C. 179. The
property extends across N.C. 179.
According to documents on filed at the county
courthouse, the tracts had served as security for a
scries of eight notes totaling S25.8 million from
Pioneer Savings Bank Inc., seven to Brick
landing Associates Limited Partnership and one
to Fairwinds Limited Partnership.
The first loan, of SI 1.69 million, was made in
January 1988, and referenced a still earlier loan
made in June 1987; the last, for S1.2 million, was
made in March 1990.
The outstanding balance on those notes as of
March 8 was S16.45 million, according to an af
fidavit of default signed by Ted Hardee, vice
president of Pioneer Savings, excluding attor
ney's fees and other costs.
Hardee, contacted Tuesday, refused to answer
any questions, saying he did not handle news re
leases. He said he would have someone else call
later who could respond to questions.
The balance due on the loans is substantially
greater than the S4.25 million bid by Intracoastal
last week.
Intracoa-sial's bids were as follows:
?S575.000 for S708.947 for the 5.25-acrc tract
that includes Fairwinds;
?S300.000 for two five-acre tracts;
?$447,796 for a 1.55-acre tract that includes
Building A of the Inlet Wacche condominium
project;
?SI, 676,333 for 28 tracts that constitute the
balance of the property, including the beach lots,
undeveloped acreage, Windsong Villas, Mariners
Wacche, additional Inlet Wacche properties,
Southern Oaks, Oakbrook III, Lakcview and un
developed land.
The assets of Bricklanding Associates Limited
Partnership were held by a parent company,
Bricklanding Plantation Properties Inc. That
company was succcssor to Carver, Williams,
Tomblin and Madison Inc.
H. Michael Breazel Inc. ws the marketing cor
poration for the project and Breazel was regis
tered agent for its various property owners' asso
ciations.
Bids Could Be Upset
It took more than an hour last Thursday for
William A. Sessoms, an attorney from Whiteville
who acted as trustee for the sale, to read the
lengthy legal descriptions of the property into a
microphone. His only breaks were to accept five
quick bids from Intracoastal and to occasionally
clear his throat with water. Only a handful of
people attended the sale, including the president
of one of the property owners' associations at
Bricklanding Plantation.
Should one or more upset bids be filed by the
April 8 deadline, Sessoms ? or more likely his
designee, he hastened to say ? will get to repeat
Thursday's performance.
The bids remain open 10 days from the date of
the sale for upset
The sale is subject to any unpaid ad valorem
taxes, easements, liens against the property that
includc deeds of trust used to secure other loans
from various parties, and "the right, if any, of the
United States of America to redeem the property
for a period of 120 days following confirmation
of the sale."
Clegg: Town
BY TERRY POPE
Faced with shrinking landfill
spacc and state mandates to recycle,
Brunswick County will start charg
ing a "tipping fee" in July for
dumping trash at the Supply land
fill.
The fees are expected to have a
big impact on local municipal bud
gets for the 1991-92 fiscal year.
Brunswick County Manager Da
vid Clegg told county commission
ers Monday that towns, private
companies and individuals who
dump in the landfill can expect a fee
of around S30 to S35 for each ton of
waste dumped there starting July 1 .
Those figures are just estimates at
this point, he stressed.
s Must Prepare
"Hopefully, those towns who arc
looking at bleak budgets can start
preparing," Clegg said.
At its present rate, the county ex
pects the landfill to last another sev
en years.
Senate Bill 1 1 1, adopted last year,
mandates that counties have a recy
cling program in place by July 1.
By 1993, counties must be recy
cling 25 percent or more of their
solid wastes in an effort to reduce
the amount of material arriving at
county landfills.
Approximately 55,000 tons of
garbage are dumped in the Bruns
wick County landfill each year.
Clegg said one of the aims of tip
For Landfill D
ping fees is lo promote recycling
"big time."
'To impose a tipping fee definite
ly encourages residents to take out
those plastics and recyclable paper
products," Clegg said.
Commissioners are expected to
adopt a recycling program for the
1991-92 fiscal year. One plan calls
for maintaining drop boxes at the
county's solid waste transfer sta
tions and the eventual phasing out
of green boxes sites for more trans
fer stations.
'The purpose of the landfill is lo
house unrecyclable refuse," Clegg
said. "Recycling will extend the life
of the landfill, which will save the
county taxpayers some money."
umping Fees
The county currently helps to
fund eight recycling trailer sites in
the county that are manned mosdy
by volunteers and operated by
Bush's Recycling of Florence, S.C.
Last fall, commissioners agreed to
study a long-term plan and to con
tinue paying Bush to operate the
trailers until June 30.
When the tipping fees begin, ac
counts will be established for the
towns and other commercial haulers
that frequently use the landfill.
Towns that contract garbage col
lection out to private firms need to
be aware of the impending fees
when negotiating those contracts,
Clegg said.
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Troutman (top right), Debbie Cash of Jamestown (left) and her
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