Sholloffe Board
Urges Engineers To Move Fast
On Sewer Expansion
BY DOUG RUTTER
If nothing else, the engineers
hired to design expansion of Shal
lotte's sewer plant left a meeting
with town officials last week with
one thought branded in their minds.
Aldermen are demanding that
preliminary designs and studies are
finished in the next six months so
the hoard can follow through with
plans to apply for a low-interest
state loan.
Town board members emphasized
repeatedly during a special meeting
last Wednesday that engineers must
complete their work quickly so the
town can meet the Sept. 30 applica
tion deadline for a State Revolving
Fund loan.
"Our biggest concern is getting
this plan together to meet the
September deadline," Alderman Bill
Allen told engineers Street Ixe and
William Riddick of McKim &
Creed of Wilmington.
Board member Carson Durham
said state officials have indicated
Shallotte has a good chance of re
ceiving a loan, which would mean a
substantial savings for the town in
terms of interest payments.
Riddick agreed the town needs to
go after the state loan, which carries
an interest rate around 3 percent.
"That 3 percent is a real deal and
you should try to get as much of that
as you can stand," he said.
Shallotte's 12-year-old sewer sys
tem has already been expanded
once. It presently treats about
140.000 gallons of wastewater per
day, which is nearly 70 percent of
the maximum daily capacity of
206.000 gallons.
Town board members say they
want to expand the system to ac
commodate anticipated commercial
and residential growth well into the
next century.
Although a contract has yet to be
signed, McKim & Creed has been
selected to design the expansion. A
contract could be signed as soon as
April 5, when the board and engi
neers plan to meet again.
Engineering fees will be one of
the biggest items discussed at the
next meeting. Some board members
are concerned the town will be
charged too much because McKim
& Creed is a large firm with a lot of
overhead.
"I know we are not always the
cheapest, but we're not the most ex
pensive. I think we're very competi
tive," Riddick said last week.
Before the Sept. 30 deadline,
McKim & Creed engineers will
have to design expansion of the
plant and complete a 201 facilities
plan update as well as an environ
mental assessment.
The engineers said last week they
will start working on the 201 facili
tics plan update even though they
don't have a contract.
"We will start knowing we don't
have a contract. We will have a con
tract. I know that," Riddick said.
It will take five or six weeks to
finish the facilities plan. Among
other things, it will include waste
water flow projections based on
population growth trends and what
town officials know about plans for
future development.
"I think the really critical issue is
agreeing on the flow projections.
Once we do that the rest is pretty
straightforward," Riddick said.
Once the town board and engi
neers can pin down how much
wastewater treatment capacity
Shallotte will need in the future,
they can determine how much land
is needed for additional spray fields.
"To mc, your biggest problem is land near the sewer plant.
finding land to put the water on," If the deal can be worked out,
Riddick said. Boney has estimated the extra prop
Shallotte's consulting engineer, erty would allow the town to treat
Finley Boney of Raleigh, has been an additional 3(H),(XM) gallons of
trying to negotiate a lease arrange- wastewater per day. Town officials
ment with Federal Paper Board for also plan to contact International
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Kiddick said it will have to provide built in this first phase at lea
enough additional treatment capaci- meet a 10-year need."
ty to last at least 10 years. Other- If the town receives the state loan
wise, the state will probably not ap- next January. Kiddick indicated that
prove the loan application. construction could begin in
"Generally speaking what you February and the expansion could
want to plan for is a 20-year peri- be completed by the fall of 1995.
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