Logging trucks hired by Reeves Telecom Associa
tes are tearing up Boiling Spring Lakes roads, and
city officials plan to ask the company to reimburse
them for the cost of repairs when the project is com
pleted in early July. About 280 acres is being partial
ly cleared for residential development.
Logging operation damaging
Lakes roads; Reeves may pay
By Holly Edwards
Municipal Editor
A logging operation sponsqred by
Reeves Telecom Associates is
wreaking havoc in Boiling Spring
Lakes.
City commissioners complain that
log trucks exceed the safe speed
limit and tear up city roads, and that
logging company officials are cut
ting down large pine trees that are
on city property.
Commissioner Warren Plowden
suggested the board do whatever is
required to have Reeves Telecom
repay the town for costs of repairing
the road damage, and said the com
pany should be charged $500 for
every pine tree destroyed or
removed from city property.
Cutting the trees is a violation of a
city ordinance, he said, and is
punishable by a fine of up to $500.
Street superintendent Thurston
Cumbee was directed by the board
to develop a list of the damage and
the estimated costs to repair it.
About 280 acres of land is being
partially cleared, and Reeves
Telecom manager Rudy Dixon said
the company hopes to sell the prop
erty to residential developers or in
dividual property owners. He also
said city officials have not contacted
him about the suggested repayment,
but added the company would be
willing to consider reimbursing the
city for the road damage.
"Nobody’s contacted me and no
body’s complained to me," Dixon
said. "If the town would do its regu
lar maintenance on the road and
regrade it, it would be the same as it
was before. But if the town doesn’t
want to do it, maybe we will reim
burse them.”
Some road repair was planned dur
ing the c!can-up phase of the log
ging pioject, Dixon added.
‘If the town would do its regular
maintenance on the road and regrade it,
it would be the same as it was before. But
if the town doesn't want to do it, maybe
we will reimburse them ’
Rudy Dixon
Reeves Telecom
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Boiling Spring Lakes police chief Jim Vaughn stands in one of the
ditches created by logging trucks hired by Reeves Telecom Associates.
City officials plan to ask the company to reimburse them for the costs
of repairing the damaged roads when the logging project is rpmpleted
in early July.
Southland Forest Management
Company of Winnabow has been
working on the project for about
five weeks, he said, and is expected
to finish in about five mote weeks.
Cumbee indicated that the dirt
roads near the project are currently
impassable because of large ditches
caused by the log trucks. Only one
asphalt road was damaged.
"Anytime you put heavy traffic
and trucks on those roads, you’ll
have the problems we’re having,"
Cumbee said. He added that some of
the road damage may be due to the
fact that not all of the underlying
tree stumps were removed, and that
in some cases poor road building
material was used.
Dixon pointed out that there are
few homes near the logging opera
tion, and that none of them are af
fected by the road damage.
Reeves Telecom owns about 7,000
acres at Boiling Spring Lakes, and
hopes to use about one-tenth of that
property for residential develop
ment.
"It’s not the city’s intention to stop
them from clearing their land,"
declared mayor Mark Stewart. "But
they don’t have the right to tear up
other people’s property at taxpayers’
expense. I feel they need to repay
us."
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CP&L resumes using landfill
for its non-hazardous wastes
By Terry Pope
County Editor
Carolina Power and Light Co.’s
Brunswick nuclear plant near South
port will begin dumping garbage in
the county landfill again.
It has been ten years since the
power plant stopped dumping waste
at the Supply facility.
CP&L quit using the landfill in the
mid-1980s when surveillance tests
revealed waste was not being prop
erly surveyed for radioactive
material before it left the plant.
County officials say there is no
chance of that happening again.
"It’s strictly waste generated from
offices and the cafeteria," said
Brunswick County engineer Robert
Tucker. "All of that waste will be
screened for any hazardous
materials."
County employees will screen the
garbage again once it anives at the
landfill, said Tucker.
"We don’t take any hazardous
material at the site at all," he added.
"They will be bringing us material
from outside of the hot zone.”
CP&L’s Brunswick plant operates
twin boiling water nuclear reactors
to produce electricity.
Ten years ago, the landfill was
surveyed and areas indicating radia
tion levels greater than that allowed
for normal landfill conditions were
excavated and the material returned
to CP&L for proper disposal. Resi
dents were at first alarmed.
CP&L now has its own landfill li
censed by the state at the Southport
site to handle non-radioactive waste.
Tougher state and federal regula
tions and shrinking space make it
difficult for companies to continue
to operate private solid waste
facilities.
The DuPont Co. in Leland also has
a private, state-licensed landfill. Of
ficials there have not asked about
using the county landfill, said Tuck
er.
In a memo to interim county man
ager John Harvey, CP&L vice
president Roy Anderson says the
plant developed a trash monitoring
facility after the incident at the
Supply landfill.
"All waste produced by the plant
now receives a pre-disposal survey
that is commensurate with the
hazards located in the area where
the waste originates," Anderson
noted.
CP&L’s landfill is limited in size
and was only intended to serve for
trash disposal until the plant "could
assure that material released off site
met the appropriate limits for uncon
ditional release," he stated.
CP&L will haul its own garbage to
the Supply landfill and should begin
within the next 30 days. Company
Holden receives certificate
Norman R. Holden of Southport has received an advanced criminal jus
tice certificate.
He was one of 82 officers honored by the N. C. Criminal Justice Educa
tion Standards Commission May 21 in Wilkesboro.
Holden, Southport’s mayor, is a unit supervisor at the Brunswick County
office of N. C. Adult Probation and Parole.
The certificate is the highest professional certificate awarded to law en
forcement and criminal justice officers in the state. Applicants must com
plete a combination of professional training and education and meet mini
mum experience requirements.
Vandals egg house
outside Southport
Vandals tossed eggs at a house in
the 900 block of East Leonard Street
in Southport Sunday.
The property owner told deputy J.
D. Davis of the Brunswick County
Sheriffs Department that he wanted
to file a complaint to document the
vandalism.
However, he later asked that the
investigation be closed.
Some children seen around the
home Saturday were told by the
owner not to come back onto the
property, Davis stated.
No amount of damage was listed.
In other reports on file at the
sheriffs department:
•Someone rode off with a horse
saddle taken from a storage building
at a home near Maco Friday. A resi
dent of Lehrschall Trail off Malmo
Loop Road said someone pried off a
lock on a door and entered the shed.
A show saddle and breast collar
valued at $1,100 are missing along
with a portable generator, weedeater
and tools worth $1,840, reported
deputy Richard Long. The tools
were marked with silver paint, and
damage was listed at $10.
•A car stereo valued at $500 was
stolen from a car left stranded along
Cedar Hill Road north of Leland
Sunday. The driver of the 1982 Nis
san left to get help. The owner
returned and found the passenger
side door lock had been broken and
a stereo and speakers missing,
reported deputy Mark Snowden.
•Two bikes were stolen in the
Leland area. A boy’s ten-speed bike
was taken from a yard on Green Hill
Road on Sunday, Snowden reported.
It had been left leaning against the
home. Also, a 26-inch Earth Cruiser
painted pink and black and worth
around $200 was stolen from a
home on Sturgeon Drive Friday,
reported Long. It had been left in the
front yard.
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officials will first screen the landfill
for radiation levels to protect them
selves, said Tucker, in case a claim
is made against CP&L later.
Anderson said the plant’s trash
monitoring facility has operated for
12 years with improved monitoring
and surveillance. CP&L is assured
that "inadvertent release of control
led material can be prevented and
has been achieved,” he noted.
Tucker said the amount of garbage
won’t make a significant impact on
the county’s landfill operations. The
company will probably haul to the
site once a week.
"The main reason they wanted to
talk to us first was to make sure they
had covered all of the bases," said
Tucker, "so nobody in the public
will be alarmed in thinking that
there is any danger involved."
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NOTICE OF FILING OF
APPLICATION FOR CAMA MINOR
DEVELOPMENT PERMIT
Pursuant to NCGS 113A-119(b), the
Town of Long Beach, a locality authorized
to Issue CAMA permits In areas of environ
mental concern, hereby gives NOTICE
that on May 25, 1993, John Stedman filed
an application for a CAMA permit to con
struct a 20’xl4' deck and repair damaged
bulkhead and place sandbags the east and
west corners on the property located at Lot
5 & 6, Block 4, Section ELB; 5515 E.
Beach Drive.
Persons desiring to Inspect the applica
tion, to comment thereon or to appeal the
local decision are directed to contact the
local permit officer at the below address by
June 4, 1993. Later comments will be ac
cepted and considered up to the time of
permit decision. Project modifications may
occur based on further review and com
ments. Notice of the permit decision in this
matter will be provided upon written re
quest.
Sheila M. Bell
Local Permit Officer for Receiving
Minor Development Permits under CAMA
Town of Long Beach
P.O.Box 217
Long Beach, NC 284415
919-278-9625