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Four-plex units are part of the next phase of the OceanGreens development
OceanGreens project subject of hearing
By Amitabh Pal
Municipal Editor
The Caswell Beach town board is expected to give formal go-ahead to
the next phase of OceanGreens construction after a public hearing on the
matter Thursday at 5 p.m.
Initial construction in the development has been completed and occupied,
and further development along the Elizabeth River marsh is anticipated
later.
The project' under couskler-atlon-Tharsday- will- consist of-18 units -with-a.
view of Oak Island Golf and Country Club and 28 units with an ocean
view. The "occanfront" structures will be four-unit buildings with two units
per floor. "Golf villas" will be two-unit buildings.
Completion of some units is expected by summer. OceanGreens general
manager Dave LaFave said 14 of the "occanfront" units and five villa units
have already been reserved.
LaFave said he expects the majority of the new units will be used as va
cation homes. Most of the first-phase homes arc occupied by permanent
residents.
The project will be linked by road with Caswell Dunes.
LaFave said last week he was hopeful of commissioners’ approval.
"We’ve been working closely with the town officials," he said. "This is
an asset to the town. People in charge of the town care about maintaining
its uniqueness, but they are not anti-development."
He said he has sought input from the town since work started on the pro
ject.
LaFave said that during earlier hearings before the planning board and
the board of commissioners no significant objections were been raised ex
cept concerns about adequate parking space, which he OccanGrcens has
tried to. address,.
"Over the course of the past nine months we have hail a-lol of sugges
tions from neighbors and residents," LaFave said. "We’re open to that. By
this, we can avoid a lot of mistakes."
OccanGrcens construction started in 1990 and the first units were com
pleted in early 1991. Construction on the marshsidc units is expected to be
gin next year, with completion three years later. Preliminary approval for
the marshsidc construction has already been granted.
The OccanGrcens developer is Caswell Partnerships, which also devel
oped the Arboretum and owns the unsold portion of Caswell Dunes.
Bald Head Creek is closed
By Jim Harper
Staff Writer
Bald Head Creek has been closed
to shellfishing due to a high con
centration of bacteria in the water
there.
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Division of Marine Fisheries, said
the creek was closed because of a
high concentration of coliform bac
teria in samples taken at the creek
mouth in 1988 and 1990, though he
said a recent water sample taken far
ther up the creek showed an even
higher concentration of bacteria than
in the older samples.
The creek is a primary source of
oysters and clams for commercial
gatherers as well as for recreational
clammers on the mainland and on
the island.
Gilbert said water from the station
at the mouth of Bald Head Creek is
tested five times annually, with
results going into a three-year as
sessment cycle for the Cape Fear
River mouth area.
Stations must show a coliform
aactcria count of less than 43 per
100 milliliters (three ounces) of
water at least 90 percent of the time
to be considered safe. He said the
standard is one agreed to by various
shellfish-producing states and the
federal Food and Drug Administra
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The station at the mouth of Bald
Head Creek produced a bacteria
count of 49 in October, 1988, and
April, 1990, exceeding the ten per
cent allowance for that three-year
cycle, Gilbert said.
He said his department’s intention
was to establish further sampling
stations upstream, and the creek was
not declared unsafe at that time, but
recent pressure by the FDA led to
the closure.
He said another sampling station
has been designated near the old
lighthouse landing, and it produced
a bacteria count of 130 on October
7, though a sample taken there No
vember 3 produced a count of only
22.
Coliform bacteria arc found in the
intestinal tracts of warm-blooded
creatures, Gilbert said, and no dis
tinction is made by his department
as to whether the source is humans,
birds or other animals.
(While it might be supposed that
human pollution should be of more
concern to humans, Gilbert said that
some bacteria, including the highly
dangerous salmonella, can be
carried and transmitted by birds.)
Gilbert, a field worker in shellfish
sanitation here during the 1960s,
when upstream pollution caused
widespread shellfish closures, said
after that problem was solved the
Bald Head Creek station had been
generally within tolerance until
1988.
He ascribed the increased presence
of coliform bacteria to runoff caused
by island development, but not to
pollution from septic and sewage
treatment systems used by island
property owners.
David Edwards, manager of Bald
Head Island Utilities, said the island
has 15 homes served by septic tanks
and 357 other housing units served
by a variety of waste treatment sys
tems under his supervision.
Edwards said treated wastewater
on the island is not discharged into
Bald Head Creek. He said there are


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no septic tanks along the creek, and
that sewage from the marina area,
Lighthouse Landing and Timber
creek is pumped inland and treated
before being returned to the ground.
‘Missing person’ is found
Former Brunswick County commissioner candidate Patty Young
has been taken off the missing persons list, and it has been
determined that she left her home "on her own free will," Bruns
wick County Sheriffs Department Capt. Phil Perry said Tuesday.
Perry said the sheriff’s department located where Young was stay
ing and determined that no foul play was involved.
Young was reported missing by her husband on Sunday, Novem
ber 22, after she said she was going to the Shallotte Wilson’s for
turkey on Saturday morning and never returned.
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