New Criteria Place Top- Rated
Landfill Sites in Supply, Bolivia
BY ERIC CARLSON
The committee charged with se
lecting a location for a new county
landfill has changed its criteria for
choosing a site; consequently, four
previously recommended locations
in the Lcland area arc being rejected
in favor of three others in the Supply
anil Bolivia area.
The top-rated site to be consid
ered is located along SR 1501 about
1 .8 miles cast of Antioch, bordered
on the north by a tributary of the
Lock wood Folly River. The sccond
ratcd site is adjacent to the first,
across SR 1501 and bounded on the
south by SR 1504.
Another site is just south of the
existing landfill with frontage along
U.S. 17 and bordered on the west by
Royal Oak Swamp and on the north
east by Beaverdam Swamp. The last
proposed site is located south of SR
1343 and west of SR 211 at Little
Macedonia, bordered on the west by
Middle River and on the south by
Royal Oak Swamp.
The change may add considerably
to the cost of maintaining and clos
ing a new landfill.
At a meeting last Thursday, the
Brunswick County Landfill Siting
Committee met with the county en
gineer and a hired consultant and
changed the list of priorities it had
previously agreed upon for selecting
a landfill site.
In earlier meetings the committee
had agreed upon a list of 29 criteria
for selecting a landfill site.
The criteria included engineering
considerations such as soil condi
tions. usable acrcagc. hauling dis
tances and proximity to sewage
treatment facilities; environmental
concerns like the closeness to wells
and depth of ground water, and so
cial and political criteria like zoning
and proximity to neighbors.
Each of the 29 considerations was
given a weight ranging from 10 for
very important issues to 2 for least
important criteria.
One of the most important consid
erations identified by the committee
was the availability of nearby
sewage treatment facilities. Under
new regulations, all landfills must be
lined with plastic and all water flow
ing out of them mast be treated.
A landfill must either run a pipe
to a treatment plant or pump the ef
fluent into tracks to be hauled away
and treated. Even after closing the
landfill, the water flowing out of it
must be monitored and treated for
10 to 15 years.
Another consideration the com
mittee placed at the top of its list
was a location that would allow a
landfill to become a regional facility.
One of the least important criteria
identified by the committee was
hauling distance, since the county's
system of transfer stations makes the
location of a landfill a relatively mi
nor cost consideration.
Once the criteria were established
and weighted, each of the 12 areas
previously identified by engineering
studies as possible landfill sites was
rated based on the committee's blind
evaluations.
Those ratings indicated that four
sites in the Leland area and one near
Bolivia would be most suitable for a
new landfill.
But after seeing the results of its
own selection process, the commit
tee voted Thursday to change the
weighting of its criteria designated
"proximity to the county line," from
highest priority to lowest priority,
thereby favoring sites in the Bolivia
and Supply areas.
County Engineer Robert Tucker
said Friday the committee made its
decision to head off the possibility
of a Brunswick County landfill be
ing used as a regional facility and
"to reduce hauling costs."
The committee's earlier findings
and its consulting engineer recom
mended a site north of U.S. 74/76
bordered by Seaboard Railroad
tracks. Hood Creek and Alligator
Branch as the top site in the county.
Tucker said the site's close prox
imity to an existing sewage treat
ment plant at the Leland Industrial
Park made it an especially attractive
choice.
After the committee's change in
criteria Thursday night, the site fell
from number one to number two.
But it was not included on the list of
four sites that will be shown to slate
regulators for evaluation.
Instead of choosing the top four
sites, the committee selected num
bers 1, 3, 8 and 11, based on its ad
justed criteria. Under its original
weighting, the four finalists were
rated as numbers 3, 7, 10 and 12.
FINDINGS 'HAZY.' SAYS FNGINEER
Canals Samples Show Bacteria
BY KRIC CARLSON
Preliminary analysis of 11 water
samples recently taken from Sunset
Beach canals indicates the presence
of coliform bacterial at all but one of
the locations tested, Brunswick
County Environmental Health
Supervisor Andrew Robinson said
Monday.
In a report to the county board of
health, Robinson said he had re
ceived results from the first in a se
ries of water quality tests scheduled
to be performed in conjunction with
the N.C. Division of Environmental
Management (DEM).
While he cautioned that the data
collcctcd so far are incomplete,
Robinson said after the meeting that
fecal coliform levels ranging from 2
to 500 colonics per 100 milliliters of
water were found in the four canals
and at two of three other sites tested
in the first round of sampling.
Coliform bacteria exists in the di
gestive tracts of warm-blooded ani
mals. Robinson said its presence in
the Sunset Beach canals indicates
that human waste may be seeping
into the water from septic tanks.
Robinson, who accompanied
DEM personnel during the sam
pling, said he observed "seepage
from the bulkhead" on one canal, in
dicating that the neighboring scptic
tank was not operating properly.
But a DEM environmental engi
neer Tuesday called the preliminary
findings "hazy" and warned against
drawing conclusions from a single
sampling of the canal waters. He
said the data collected so far do not
indicate the canals are unsafe for
swimming.
"There appears to be a potential
for elevated levels in remote areas of
canals localized around housing de
velopments," said Jim Bushardt of
the DEM's Wilmington office. "But
you can't base a water quality as
sumption on a limited number of
samples."
While the first round of sampling
revealed coliform levels that exceed
the maximums allowable for shell
fishing, only one sample indicated a
bacteria count higher than the state
allows in waters classified as safe
for swimming.
Shellfish cannot be taken from
waters with a coliform count higher
than 14 colonics per 100 ml.
"Organized swimming" is not rec
ommended in waters showing a col
iform count above 400, Bushardt
said. These counts can only be offi
cially established by taking a series
of samples over a 30-day period.
The highest coliform level found
in the recent Sunset Beach samples
was a count of 500 recorded at the
mouth of the canal between Dolphin
Street and Cobia Street. The next
highest levels were two counts of
110 found at the head of the canal
between Sixth and Marvin streets
and at 1805 East Canal Street. The
other samples revealed coliform
counts of 80, 30, 9, 8, 4, 4, 2 and
less than 2.
The 1 1 water samples were taken
during a 35-minute period at low
tide on Friday, June 30, Robinson
said. Water was collected at the
mouth and the end of the four canals
between Marvin, Sailfish, Dolphin
and Cobia Streets and at three points
along East Canal Street.
"There haven't been enough sam
ples taken and the regime required
by the state has not been followed"
to provide enough data to make a
determination about the safety of
Sunset Beach canal waters, Bushardt
said.
"Right now, we're not aware of
anybody who's been taken ill from
swimming in those canals," he said.
Robinson said he hopes to take
"four or five" more samples at each
location at varying limes of day and
tide.
The county health department be
gan the testing project in response to
a June 3 request from the Sunset
Beach Town Council. Council's ac
tion was in response to concerns ex
pressed by a year-round resident
whose home is on a canal lot.
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Record temperatures and scant rainfall continue to take their toll on people and plants throughout the
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Rosemobile
Plans Visit
On July 20
The mobile office of Congress
man Charlie Rose, D-7th District,
will return to Brunswick County
Tuesday, July 20, and will be at the
South Brunswick Post Office from 9
a.m. until noon.
A representative, of Rose's office
will be available for conferences at
that time.
Persons who have a problem with
a federal agency or questions about
federal legislation arc invited to visit
the mobile office.
Additional stops in Brunswick
County during the summer arc tenta
tively set for August.
Supply Library
Open To Students
Summer vacation calls a tempo
rary halt to classes and homework,
and that means more time to read
just for fun.
For Supply Elementary School
students, books are as close as the
school library.
Spokesman Jean Gillette said the
Supply Elementary School library is
open to its students every Tuesday
through the summer from 9 a.m. to 1
p.m. Students can use all library re
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school, 754-7644.
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