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Hearing Tuesday On Landfill Sites (Continued From Page l-A) "We want to invite any interested parties to let us hear their thoughts about these proposed sites," said Tucker. Once the landfill siting committee has made its decision, the recom mendation will be forwarded to the county commissioners for final ap proval. Tile committee originally used a blind selection process to choose po tential landfill sites based solely on engineering, environmental and po litical considerations such as soil conditions, usable acreage, hauling distances, proximity to sewage treat ment facilities, closeness to wells, depth of ground water, zoning and proximity to neighbors. Each of the 29 considerations was given a weight ranging from 2 to 10 to gauge its importance. When the committee's rating sys tern was applied to Ihe characteris tics of 12 areas identified only by number, the results indicated that four sites in Leland. and one area in Bolivia, would he most suitable lor a new landfill. But after seeing the results of its own selection process, the commit tee decided that "hauling distance" should be changed from a minor consideration to a major one. there by favoring sites in the Bolivia and Supply areas over the top choices in I.eland. The committee's original findings also agreed with the top choice of its hired engineering consultant, who recommended a site north of U.S. 74/76 bordered by Seaboard Railroad tracks. Hood Creek and Alligator Branch as the top landfill site in the county. The site's close proximity to an existing sewage treatment plant at the Leland Indus trial Park made il an especially at tractive choice. Under new federal regulations, all landfills must he lined with plastic and all water flowing out of them must lie treated. If a landfill can't lie connected to a treatment plant, the effluent must be pumped into trucks to be hauled away and treated. Even after it is closed, the water flowing out of a landfill must be monitored and treated for 10 to 15 years. Although the top Leland site re mained the second choice under the committee's adjusted criteria, it was not included on the list of proposed landfill areas shown to state regula tors 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 the original blind selection process, those four finalists were rated numbers 3. 7. 10 and 12. Candidates File Early For Primaries (Continued From Page 1-A) years before joining the highway pa trol. A resident of Ixing Beach for the past 13 years. Dove served eight years as President of the Brunswick County Law Enforcement Asso ciation. "1 have only known two things in my life: service to my country and sers ice to my state." Dove said. "It would he an honor beyond anything I could imagine if the people of Brunswick County would choose me to serve them as their sheriff." Sisk likew ise stressed his 32 years of law enforcement experience as his primary qualification for the job. A sergeant and shift supervisor with the Long Beach Police for the past eight years. Sisk previously worked for the Belmont and Mount Holly police departments and the Gaston County Sheriff's Department. If elected. Sisk said he would avoid the "good-old-boy, buddy sys tpm" jn hiring and promoting sher iff's ?J'-p:?r!nvjn! ptTsonnc!. He he would focus much of his efforts on combating illegal drug use and pledged to keep the sheriff's office open to the public "24-hours a day. seven days a week." "My aim is to protect and serve people with an open dooi and an open mind, for a new direction in law enforcement," Sisk said. Brown, vice-chairman of the Brunswick County Republican Party, said at the time of his en dorsement he was seeking the office again "for the same reason I ran last time, because Brunswick County needs some new law enforcement." Brown finished first of five candi dates in the 1990 GOP primary for sheriff, receiving twice as many votes as his closest challenger. In the November 1990 general election, he received 7.010 votes to incumbent Sheriff John Carr Davis's f>21 He cites as his primary qualifica tions IS years administrative experi ence as owner of three Southport area businesses and his background in military intelligence. He is an Army veteran and a former military policeman. Shortly before the elections office closed Monday, Brown made his candidacy for the Republican sher iffs nomination official. State House Candidates File In other races affecting Bruns wick County, former state represen tative Ron Taylor has filed for elec tion as the Democratic candidate for North Carolina's 18th Senate seat, an office currently held by R.C. Soles Jr of Tabor City. Soles has an nounced his intention to seek re election. State Rep. Dewey Hill has filed for re-election to his 14th District seat in the N.C. House of Repre sentatives. representing most of Brunswick County. Thomas E. Wright of Wilmington has filed for re-election as represen tative of the l)Sth N.C. House dis trict. which includes New Hanover Coiiniy :ind a small section of north western Brunswick County. STAFF PHOTO BY ERIC CARLSON COMMISSIONER Jerry Jones (right) talks with Beverly Brown and Ronald ( astir oj Southport about his vote against an ordinance to prohibit mining with explosives within five miles of Brunswick Nuclear Plant and the Sunny I'oint military ammunition terminal. Mine Foes Applaud Board Action (Continued Krom Pape 1-A) ova(ion. In an interview after the meeting. Quinn criticized Jones and Shaw I'm their opposition to the ordinance. "Mr. Shaw said he was afraid of a lawsuit," Quinn said. "The last thing we want in a leader is fear. Leaders don't gel afraid. They act." Quinn said the committee's ef forts to prevent the mine are not over. He said the group will now fo cus its attention on state regulators, in hopes of assuring denial of Martin Marietta's mining permit. He said he also pians to contact State Sen. R.C. Soles to discuss his pledge to intro duce legislation aimed at tightening "We haven't deprived them of anything yet." ?Michael Ramos County Attorney environmental controls in the state mining act. Meanwhile, County Attorney Michael Ramos said he expects Martin Marietta to take some sort of legal action aimed at recovering their investment. "They're a big company with a lot of resources, and they 've certain ly invested something." Ramos said. "But I don't think its going to hap pen until they get a mining permit. We haven't deprived them of any thing yet." Ramos said the county has "a good shot" at prevailing in its de fense of the mining ordinance due to the "unique situation" posed by min ing with explosives near an ammu nition terminal and a nuclear power piant. "There is certainly evidence that ii couid cause problems." he said. Shallotte Seeking Proposals For Sewer Expansion BY DOllO KU ITER Shallotte officials will ask four engineering firms to come up with proposals for expanding the sewer plant, instead of simply accepting the recommendation of their long time consultant. Boney & Associates of Raleigh, which has worked closely with the town for more than a decade, will he just one of the firms asked to recom mend how the town should expand its capacity from 2()6.(MM) to 500,000 gallons per day. "I just think it's good business for us to look at what's available and not be narrow-minded," Alderman Carson Durham said Tuesday in suggesting the town consider hirinu a different firm. Shallotte also will seek engineer ing proposals from Houston & Associates of Shallotte, Andrew & Kuske Consulting Engineers Inc. of Wilmington and McKim ?& Creed Engineers of Wilmington. Each firm will have 60 days to submit a proposal. It will include a study of the existing facility and treatment alternatives, verification of anticipated expansion and the preparation of specifications, permit modifications and documents for al ternative funding sources. Although Finiey Boney of Boney & Associates presented his proposal Tuesday night. Durham said the town board needs to consider others. "We need to look at what options we have out there," he said. "We ougiii iu look at wliai'.s available io us and what's best for Shallotte looking down tne roau." Alderman Bill Allen agreed with Durham that the board needs to con sider all of its options. He said he didn't want to make a decision that he would regret 10 years from now without at least studying alterna tives. However, Mayor Sarah Tripp said seeking alternative proposals isn't lair to Boney because his proposal is already on the table. "I think Mr. Boney s already let his cat out of the bar " I he mayor also said she doesn't want to risk losing a possible long term lease w ith Federal Paper Board Co. Boney h.is been negotiating a lease that would provide more than MM) acres of property suitable for spray irrigation at little or no cost to the town. Durham said Boney could contin ue negotiating for that property, be cause in all likelihood the town will end up needing the land for addi tional spray fields. Boney said he did not object to the town hoard seeking other pro posals. However, he suggested the lown not require the lirms to include engineering osts in their proposals, and the board agreed. Board Appointments With two new members on the town board. Mayor Tripp made ap pointments to several committees Tuesday night after aldermen elect ed Da\ id Gause to his second term as mayor pro tem. Mayoral appointments were as follows: ?Police department personnel: Morris Hall and Roney Cheers. ?Maintenance department per sonnel: Gause and Allen. ?Administration personnel: Durham and Allen. ?Sunnysidc School huiiding: Cheers and Hall. ?1 mergcncy Medical Services Advisory Board: Tripp. ?Cape Fear Council of Government: Cheers and Durham (alternate). Gause and Allen are expected to wuik wiiii fviainienance Supervisor Albert Hughes over the next couple weeks to fill a vacancy in the depart ment. Hughes said he has 17 appli cations on file and will not need to advertise. Cheers suggested the town up grade the hourly wage for the new maintenance worker, who could be hired before the end of the month. "What the starting salary is is peanuts." ( heers said. However, Hall said the board Ib i n g o tj, Thursday Nights ? Doors Open 6:15 pm p Calabash VFW Post 7288 * Carter Rd , Trader's Village, Calabash, 579 3577 ft OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Games begin at 7:30 PM ^ Minimum "Buy In" $5.00 K Minimum Pay Out $650 00 Maximum $725 Snacks Available ? No Children under 12 B NEW SMOKE-FREE AIR SYSTEM ?IWIIK K flLA N ^ mi |U| PSiSI US ^iSI K0 KSiSfl RiH pm RiK pwi ployces at the same time. Aldermen agreed to consider a new pay scale for employees at a later date. Aldermen plan to fill two vacan cies on the planning board at their next regular meeting Jan. IK. The town needs to fill seats previously held by Paul Wayne Reeves and Tim Carter. On Tuesday, aldermen approved the planning board's choice of Davis Milligan as the new board chairman. He replaces Durham, who resigned as chairman to serve on the board of aldermen. Durham will continue serving on the planning for one year. "He's in volved in several things we're work ing on and we feel he will be a good liaison between the town board and planning board," Milligan said. Shallotte officials will ask Brunswick County Commissioners to re-appoint Jack Scarborough as a planning board representative from the extraterritorial area (ETJ). In a related matter Tuesday, alder men re-appointed Jimmy Marshall, Roy Mintz and Doug Roycroft to the Shallotte ABC Board. Mintz. the chairman, will serve through July 1995. Marshall's term expires this July and Roycroft's in 1996. Library Needs Money Shuliotte officials made no com mitment Tuesday hut promised to consider a request for money that would help keep the West Brunswick Branch Library open while a new building is being con structed. The Main Street library is expect ed to close March 25 and remain closed for six months, according to Richard Eisenman of Friends of the Library. Eisenman said the organization is trying to raise the estimated $10,000 it will cost to move the library to temporary quarters during construc tion. He said all towns served by the library are being asked to donate. Eisenman said closing the library would affect children and senior citi zens more than anyone else. "I'd hate to see the children's pro gram go down the tube because if you can keep one kid interested maybe they won't end up in jail." he said. "I hate to see the library close for even one day." Mayor Tripp said. "We don't have a great, big library but for the people who use it it would be a very big loss in our town." Sewer On Track in Caiabash (Continued From Page 1-A) towns will activate the South Bruns wick Water and Sewer Authority, which can issue revenue bonds to pay for the system. Those loans would he paid hack through water bills and connection fees collected from customers. Under the latest proposal, the au thority would pay for the project us ing S27 million in revenue bonds, S5 million in federal Clean Water Act bonds and $3.K from the N.C. Division of Environmental Manage ment's (DEM) revolving ioan pro gram. Billups told the board that the board needed to approve the $150,000 in design funding Monday night if it wanted the work complet ed in time to qualify for the low-in terest DEM loan. The town is at the top of revolving list of towns who want funding for water and sewer projects. Still, he admitted that there is a possibility the town won't qualify for all its required permits. If not, the sewage treatment plans for downtown Calabash could still be used as part of an alternate funding or construction project. "It is a gamble at this point in time, he said. But it is the intent of the state to get rid of those (revolv ing loan) funds as soon as it can. I don't know what the town's eligibil ity will be next year." # ColoWii MOTEL JBitfi-H ? uri J.?1?-1 1?J I I ''Open Year Round" Rooms & Efficiency Apartments ? Heart of Seafood Capital (910)579-6576 RATES: Single $20; Double $25; Efficiency $32 rse? ?nsr HEALTH DEPARTMENT INSPECTION 98.5 Cable TV, coffee and phone in rooms. 1115 River Koad, Calabash, NC 2W467 (1 Block Below Stoplight) Right-Of-Way Acquisition Slated For Temporary Road Right-of-way acquisition for a temporary route at the U.S. 17 by pass and N.C. 130 interchange heads the list of three Brunswick County projects expected to be approved when the slate Board of Transportation meets Friday in Raleigh. The state Department of Transportation plans to build a temporary road for use by traffic on N.C. 130 west of the bypass during construc tion of a partial cloverleaf interchange. Right-of-way for the temporary route is expected to cost $450,(KM). Also on the agenda are requests for $45,000 for a safety project on N.C. 211 at Southport and $15,000 to pave the entrance apron to the Civietown Volunteer Fire Department. DOT proposes to widen a two-tenths of a mile section of N.C. 211 to three lanes with a two-way, left turn lane approaching the west intersec tion of N.C. 133, or Dosher Cut-Off. Normal Winter Weather Due Typical January weather is in the forecast for the South Brunswick Islands. Temperatures are expected to range from the mid-30s at night into the mid-50s during the daytime, with about one-half inch of precipi tation. said Shallotte Point meteorol ogist Jackson Canady. For the |>ciiod of Dec. 28 through Jan. 3, he recorded a high of 62 de grees on Jan. 1 and a low of 18 de grees on Dec. 31. The daily average temperature was 44 degrees, about two degrees below average, reflecting a daily av erage high of 53 degrees and an av erage nightly low of 35 degrees. For the period Canady measured 2!i irv;h rainfall. 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