Point, Seaside Water
Projects
Not Affected By Budget Crunch
BY TKRRY P()PK
Budget cuts will not affect Bruns
wick County's goal to provide
county water to Shallotte Point resi
dents by next year.
Phase 111 and III-A of the coun
ty's water distribution project will
be fully funded despite cuts of an
estimated S7.5 million in 1991-92
budget requests.
The project will also route a main
distribution line to the Seaside com
munity to boost the volume of water
available to southern Brunswick
County developments.
County commissioners remain
committed to the S10 million ex
pansion package, even in a lean
budget year.
However, a SI. 36 million project
to provide water lines to Sunset
Harbor and down Mu Pisgah
Church Road has been placed in
abeyance for possible 1992-93 two
thirds bond funding rather than
through the county's general fund.
Engineers remain busy planning
Pliasc 111 and III-A.
"We're about 23 to 25 percent
complete with the project," said Jay
Houston of Houston and Associates
in Shallottc. "It's still on schedule."
Houston said the capital improve
ments project will take care of
Brunswick County's water needs
for the next five or six years.
Phase 111 will provide a second
distribution line to the Seaside com
munity from Shallottc. A main line
along N.C. 179 now feeds southern
Brunswick County, but county offi
cials arc worried that the demand
will exceed the supply during peak
usage periods this summer.
Phase III consists of a 24-inch
line to Grissettown along U.S. 17, a
3,400 gallons per minute pumping
station south of Shallottc, a 16-inch
line down N.C. 904 to Old George
town Road and a 12-inch line from
there to Seaside.
It also includes a 20-inch line
from Grissettown to Thomasboro, a
12-inch line down Thomasboro
Road, a 12-inch line down N.C. 130
to West Brunswick High School and
an eight-inch line down Union Pri
mary School Road to the Old Shal
lottc Road.
The line will not travel the U.S.
17 Shallottc bypass as once plan
44 We're about 23 to 25 percent complete
with the project (planning). It's still on
schedule."
? Jay Houston,
Consulting Engineer
ned, said Houston. Instead, the
county has obtained an easement
from Brunswick Electric Member
ship Corp. to use a powerline right
of way through Shallollc.
"An act of Congress was the only
way we could go to the bypass
route," said Houston. "With it, we
just saw months in trying to get that
easement It turns out that the cost
standpoint will be better, too."
The county must buy land for a
pumping station near the Shallotte
Township District Park on U.S. 17.
County Manager David Clegg said
he has been asked why the county
can't build at the park.
"We would risk having to pay
back the federal grant used to build
the park if we use that land for a
pumping station," said Clegg. "It
very specifically states that every
single inch must be used as a park."
The county hopes to bid the en
tire project by the fall.
The four-laning of U.S. 17 south
of Shallotte to the South Carolina
line presents an interesting problem.
The N.C. Department of Transpor
tation, Brunswick Elcctric, Atlantic
Telephone and county water depart
ment will all be at work along the
busy highway.
"It'll look like one giant anthill
for a few months," Houston said.
Phase III- A to Shallotte Point
consists mosdy of six-inch lines
along 10.7 miles of state roads, in
cluding Copas Road, Todd Road,
Pigott Road, Shallotte Point Loop
Road and Bay Road.
A 300,000-gallon elevated water
tank must also be built on Village
Point Road, said Houston.
The community will become a
Special Assessment District (SAD)
once the main lines arc in. That will
extend lines into individual devel
opments and neighborhoods.
Shallotie Point resident Scott Tay
lor, of Gurganus Road, asked com
missioners last week to make his
street part of the capital improve
ments project. He said approximate
ly 10 percent of Shallotie Point resi
dents live on Gurganus Road.
However, commissioners did not
change plans to include the road.
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