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Brunswick Moves Ahead With Power- Generating Waste Disposal BY ERIC CARLSON The Brunswick County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday seized an opportunity to avoid a long, uglv battle over building a new landfm by authorizing contract talks aimed at joining three other area counties in a regional power-generating garbage disposal system. Acting County Manager Charles McGinnis and County Engineer Robert Tucker were instructed to be gin negotiations with the Vedco Energy Corp.. a Houston, Texas, based firm that is currently building a waste-to-energy disposal system outside Faycttcvillc. If a contract is signed, Brunswick would join Bladen. Cumberland and Hoke counties in their "BCH Energy Project," which is designed to re move plastics, aluminum and other metals from garbage while using the combustible materials to generate electricity. Vedco has arranged to sell the electric power produced at the facili ty to a nearby DuPont Co. plant. Company officials estimate that oniy about 10 percent of the incoming solid waste will have to be buried in Cumberland County's landfill. Brunswick County is running out of landfill space and must find a new place to dispose of its garbage by 1998. Under new state and feder al regulations, the county also will be required to devise a plan to re duce its total landfill input by 25 percent through recycling. The necessary cut in buried waste will increase to 40 percent in the year 2002. Efforts to locate a site for a new county landfill faltered after public protests were raised over proposed dump sites in (he Ix-iand and Boiivia areas. At a meeting in May, TUcker pre sented the commissioners with a comparison study of three solid waste disposal alternatives. The least expensive choicc would be to locate and construct a suitable land fill site within the county, he said. The next cheapest method might be to dispose of the county's garbage at a regional landfill such as the one proposed for Columbus County. But officials there arc hav ing the same difficulty finding a po litically acceptable dump site The third, and probably most ex pensive alternative would be to join in Vedco's BCH Energy Project, which Tucker said "would get Brunswick County out of the landfill business." Although Vedco would haul county's garbage to Cum berland County, Brunswick would have lo join in the construction of a solid waste transfer station at the ex isting landfill. Tucker has estimated that in county waste disposal would cost about $38 per ton for the first year and $4# after 10 years. He said that paying Vedco for the service would cost approximately $44 a ton the first year, climbing to more than $62 a ton after a 10 years. However, because the county will have to meet stricter wastc-rcduction standards. Tucker said the Vedco op tion might save money in long-term recycling costs. Company officials last May suggested that Tucker might be a bit optimistic in his cost estimates for a new county landfill. At Tuesday's meeting, McGinnis and Tucker let Vedco officials know that they have a few concerns about the company's preliminary contract offer. McGinnis said the county will Taking To The Streets iUff rMOTO BY BBC CAIUON Leading the long line of parade participants, the Brunswick County Schools 4th of July Festival Band makes its way up Howe Street in South port Monday morning. Coast Guard Charges Two With Boating While Impaired The U.S. Coast Guard Station at Oak Island prosecuted two boating while-intoxicated cases, according to a report from Chief J.D. Amdt. "It is against federal regulations to operate a vessel while under the influence," Arndt said. "The legal limit is .08 blood alcohol content, just like the regulations for the State of North Carolina for driving a car." If convicted, the boaters face maximum fines of $ 1 ,000 each. On Sunday morning, July 2. the Coast Guard station's 4 1 -footer, while on patrol, came upon a dis abled 19-foot vessel in the vicinity of Marker 5 in the Atlantic Intra coastal Waterway. Because a storm was approaching, the 41 -footer towed the vessel to a safe haven without issuing a Marine Assistance Radio Broadcast (MARB) to call for a commercial salvor. At 1 1 a.m. Sunday, the station re ceived a call from a 35-foot vessel disabled about five miles north of Frying Pan Light. Because the situa tion was not an emergency, a MARB was issued. However there was no response, so the station's 41 - footer was again launched. While the Coast Guard vessel was en route, the station received a call from a commercial salvor who said he could reach the scene in three hours. The Coast Guard vessel re mained on the scene until the salvor arrived and completed arrangements to tow the vessel to safety. 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Shalluite want lo have the option of reviewing Vedco's performance "at least" three times during the proposed 25-year contract period Tucker also questioned Vedco's proposal to offer the county a refund of only $20 a ton if it finds itself un able to recycle as much waste as the contract anticipates. "If they don't make it (Vedco's re cycling quota), they wiii pay us $20 a ton to take it back while we will have to pay $100 a ton to recycle it somewhere else," I'ucker said. "They'll need sweeten the pot a little if they want to show me how confi dent they are in their ability to recy cle that much waste." Commissioner Don Warren said he liked what he has seen so far of the Vedco proposal, calling it "the most viable alternative of the op tions available right now." He noted that Columbus County had become "bogged down" in their regional landfill planing and said "our citi zens don't want a landfill here." Warren said he was aiso attracted to the power-generating waste dis posal idea because it would "help us meet our recycling goals." However, he supported the idea of requiring a regular performance review of the operation. The vote to approve negotiations with Vedco was unanimous. In other business the board: ? Adopted a "ccntral permitting I ordinance" as the first step toward implementing a long talkcd-about "one-stop shopping" system for ob taining Ihe numerous clearances from county agencies required be fore building a home or business. The system would link the various permitting offices by computer, al lowing applicants to receive neces sary approvals through a central per muting system instead of hsvmg to visit the county health department, building inspections, planning, zon ing, land records and geographic in formation systems (GIS) for individ ual permit:,. ? 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