CP&L
Continued from page 1
not only be operated safely, but reli
ably," Richey said.
Both nuclear generating units at
Brunswick were shut down by CP&L
on April 21 to accomplish what then
was said to be week-long repairs of
walls in the emergency diesel genera
tor building.
Since April the estimated time of
repairs has been repeatedly extended
asCP&L inspectors found more work
to do and the NRC insisted on being
advised about the company's plans to
resume normal operation.
The extent of the CP&L inspection
and repair program, and the company's
problems, seems typified by a CP&L
enumeration of corrective mainte
nance projects for the NRC last Fri
day:
On April 21. Brunswick had 4.031
corrective maintenance projects to
address. Since then 7.763 have been
added. 6,005 have been worked off,
leaving a backlog of 5,789, including
1.939 from the original list.
Jon Johnson, heading the NRC
Region II delegation in Friday's meet
ing at the CP&L visitors center, said
he was pleased by the CP&L presen
tation.
"That meeting was the first indica
tion that they realize they have quite a
bit of unscheduled work left to ac
complish." Johnson said.
"1 was happy to hear for the first
time that they don't know a date for
startup. The last meeting we came to
they were projecting startup in Octo
ber, and I didn't see how that was
possible."
Throughout Friday's session
Johnson repeatedly asked CP&L pre
senters. "How do you know you've
identified all significant deficiencies
... How to you know you've identified
all the significant corrosion problems
... How do you know you've gotten a
good inspection?"
And while CP&L speakers tried to
reassure him — "We want to be skep
tical in what we are doing; we want
issues to surface." said plant superin
tendent Jack Spencer - Johnson,
deputy director of the Region II divi
sion of reactor projects, scheduled a
meeting here for October 23 with his
questions still in the air.
"What I was trying to get CP&L to
answer." Johnson said Monday, "is
that they're satisfied with their in
spections. That's why I want to put
that on the agenda for the next meet
ing.”
A CP&L spokesman said Tuesday
that 700 additional workers at the
Brunswick plant - mainly contractor
employees with Power Plant Mainte
nance, Bechtel and Becon - are work
ing to bring the outage to a conclu
sion. Though there are more contract
workers than in late summer, the
spokesman said. "We don't expect
that number to be growing any fur
ther."
Zoning
Continued from page 2
asked if the district could alter zoning
once it had been imposed in the north
ern portion of the district, and Foy
said that was not possible.
Chairman James W. Smith sug
gested that special legislation by the
N. C. General Assembly could give
the district the right to revise zoning.
"If that could be done." he said.
ALS will resume
The state office of emergency medical services has approved the
implementation of part of Brunswick County’s advanced life sup
port (ALS) program, county medical director Harry Johnson said
Tuesday.
Effective immediately, Johnson said, rescue workers will be able
to monitor and use defibrillators for heart attack victims. And in
about a month, he said all EMS workers should be able to begin
using intravenous medications again.
The state suspended the county’s ALS program in August because
of apparent deficiencies in the ALS training program. Since then,
rescue workers have been unable to use defibrillators or intravenous
medications.
To get the ALS program back on line as quickly as possible,
county EMS officials developed a plan of action to verify all pre
vious ALS training and conduct retraining courses for all county
rescue workers.
"We’ve gotten everything done, and we’ve revamped the pro
gram," Johnson said.
"then we could g^Smand fine-tune ,<
anything we wanted to." ,<
The board was also advised both by <
Foy and engineering consultant Finley 1
Boney on steps that must be taken in i
development of a viable district.
Foy said of proposed zoning in the I
southern portion, "You need to nail I
down a planner, then set forth sched- ;
ules and timetables for zoning. You
have decided there would be zoning.
Now you have to decide what type of
zoning you want."
Boney told the board. "Zoning is of
the utmost necessity. Zoning is your
first tool."
He listed other necessities as well:
a subdivision ordinance, sewer use
ordinance, tap fee scheduling and a
water service extension ordinance.
"Before January we should have
one set of ordinances." Boney said.
"We should have our zoning package
ready by the first of the year."
Hearing
Continued from page 1
vor of countywide zoning in a non
binding referendum conducted last
year. Since then, commissioners
have put the establishment of
.countywide zoning on the fast track.
.Commissioners chairman Kelly
Holden and Pinkerton have vowed
to do all they can to get the or
dinance in place before they leave
pffice on December 7.
While commissioners could legal
ly adopt the ordinance at their next
meeting on October 5, most say they
need time to digest all of the com
ments and criticisms.
"I think the commissioners will
look at it and get the planning board
to look at it, and we’ll take all these
'If s about what I
expected. The ones
who want zoning
were not here, and
the majority were
against it.’
Gene Pinkerton
County commissioner
Brunswick Countv
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omments into consideration," said
ommissioner Frankie Rabon, the
trongest opponent of zoning on the
ioard. "And we’ll respond to all of
hem by letter.”
Only one person spoke out strong
y in favor of zoning Tuesday, and
le was greeted with muffled boos
ind hisses.
"I thank you for having the vision
ind the guts to get this to where it is
tow," Ocean Isle Beach resident
Slick Newton said. "I do not know
if any rule or regulation that does
lot offend someone, somewhere.
Please do not bow to the pressure of
special interest groups and water
this thing down."
Those who spoke out against the
proposed ordinance, on the other
hand, were met with round after
round of applause.
"Zoning is all right, but this is not
zoning. It’s dictatorship just like Joe
Stalin would have written," said
Bolivia resident Robert Maultsby.
Thurman Gause of Shallotte called
the proposed ordinance a form of
slavery designed for black people.
"We have a hard enough time as it
is, with all your taxes and permits.
According to this, we won’t be able
to do nothing without a permit.
Everything’s forced on us whether
we want it or not, and you all act
like you own the county. Pretty
soon, everyone else will leave, and
we’ll be stuck with this piece of
junk," Gause said, waving the pro
posed zoning ordinance in the air.
Southport attorney Henry Foy
spoke on behalf of the Southeast
Brunswick Sanitary District, and
said that the proposal was not well
thought out and would conflict with
existing planned uses of land.
The proposed ordinance as it is
currently written would prevent the
sanitary district from constructing
its sewage treatment plant without
the approval of the board of adjust
ments. (See related story, page 2.)
The water treatment plant on High
way 211 and Brunswick Electric
Membership Corporation would also
be non-conforming land uses under
the current proposals, Foy said.
Attorney Bill Fairley spoke on be
half of Orton property owner
Laurence Sprunt and requested that
Sprunt’s 12,000 acres of land be
zoned heavy manufacturing rather
than rural. Fairley said the land
would be "uniquely attractive" to
businesses needing large tracts of
land and access to the river and the
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"The highest and best use of dial
land would be a manufacturing or
industrial use," Fairley said. "There
is currently no land in Brunswick
County for industrial or commercial
purposes that’s not already zoned
for those purposes, and that is a
recipe for economic disaster."
Southport resident Bob Quinn said
he was in favor of die zoning or
dinance, but added that he believed
slaughterhouses and hazardous
waste treatment facilities should be
removed from the list of special ex
ceptions in the rural industrial zone
— which is located primarily in the
Southport area due to the proximity
of Carolina Power & Light Co. and
Sunny Point.
"We should specifically prohibit
these things in all areas of the
county," Quinn said. "We'll lose all
of what's good about our area, and
all we’ll have left will be the stench
of incinerators and hazardous waste
dumps."
Patrick Newton of Southport said
the proposed ordinance would
stymie growth in the county, and
that it conflicts with state and feder
al regulations concerning outdoor
advertising.
Other residents complained that
the ordinance would prevent them
from parking their boat in their front
yard, putting up a fence or replacing
their mobile homes if their current
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