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Volume 62/ Number 46
Southport, N.C.
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Festival, p.3-6B
Classifieds, p. 1C
Restrictions may undermine Martin Marietta
By Terry Pope
County Editor
A company that plans to mine for limestone within
the restrictive easement of a military ammunitions
terminal just north of Southport has hit a temporary
barrier.
Martin Marietta Aggregates Inc. has come up dry in
its search for a natural outlet where it can discharge
wastewater from the site.
State permits are mandatory before the mine can
operate, but company officials already face a three
month delay in their search for answers.
Residents opposed to the project say a setback may
buy more time to study its possible
harmful effects on the environment.
Martin Marietta plans to dig for
First in a series
should one occur at S unny Point mine
workers at this location would be in
nonhvsical dancer an Armvcnntnc.
umcMuiie on a large tract Doraerea oy N. c. 87 ana N.
C. 133, three miles from the city limits and just north of
Bethel Church Road. That site also lies between twin
nuclear reactors operated by Carolina Power and Light
Co.’s Brunswick nuclear plant and the nation's largest
ammunitions seaport, Military Ocean Terminal Sunny
Point.
The quarry would sit within Sunny Point's restrictive
easements where for safety reasons all building is
prohibited, but it would locate outside of the Army
terminal's explosive arc. Accidents are unlikely, but
man said.
Miners hit a snag recently when CP&L officials
refused to let Martin Marietta use the power plant's
discharge canal that empties into the Atlantic Ocean
offshore from Caswell Beach.
"I thought we would already have it three months
ago,” said John Long, director of governmental affairs
for Martin Marietta in Raleigh. "We haven't given up."
Water is drawn from the Cape Fear River along a 2.5
mile intake canal and used to cool CP&L’s condensers.
This water is discharged along a 5.5-mile canal which
includes concrete pipes under the Intracoastal Water
way to a pumping station on Oak Island. From the
pumping station on Caswell Beach, water is discharged
into the ocean through two 13-foot-diameter pipes
extending 2,000 feet into the ocean were rapid mixing
and flushing of the tides dissipates waste heat.
Martin Marietta also needs a convenient water source
where it can discharge treated wastewater that leaves
the limestone quarry. The wet-slurry mining operation
is performed with water to reduce the amount of dust
released into the air.
Company officials are "still working with land and
environmental concerns" that are important for needed
See Martin, page 6
The royalty was here for the N. C. Fourth of July Festival. This
year’s event featured Nikki Byrd as Tiny Miss Fourth of July, "Mat
Photo by Ed Harper
lock co-star Brynn Thayer as Fourth of July Festival queen, and
Kristen Ann Halcomb as Little Miss Fourth of July.
Recycling comes up way short of goal
By Holly Edwards
Municipal Editor
Despite a 1991 state-mandated goal
to reduce its waste stream 25 percent
by June 30,1993, Brunswick County
has reduced its waste stream only
about five percent over the past two
years, said county recycling coordi
nator Mary McCarley.
McCarley blamed the shortfall on
the "out of sight, out of mind attitude"
of many people in the county.
"I’ve had people flat out tell me, Tm
not going to recycle, lady. Why should
I when it doesn't cost me a thing to
throw it away,'" McCarley said. "It's
been very discouraging."
Nosignificantreduction in the waste
stream can be expected until there's
some kind of economic incentive, she
concluded. Tipping fees and house
hold charges are not popular, but
McCarley said they are the only way
to reduce waste at its primary source
— the home.
"Brunswick County is the last
county in the state that has no tipping
fees," she noted.
Virtually all of Brunswick County's
waste stream reduction has taken place
asaresultof recycling,she said, while
the amount of waste generated has
remained about the same.
The state has outlined six means of
waste reduction, in order of their de
sirability: waste reduction at the
source, recycling and reuse,
composting, incineration with energy
production, incineration for volume
reduction, and disposal in landfills.
While counties are required to re
duce the amount of trash generated,
state agencies are required to estab
lish recycling programs for office
paper and look for markets for
recyclables. Although more people
are recycling, markets for recyclables
are not being created at the same rate.
Brunswick County's next goal is to
reduce its waste stream 40 percent by
See Recycling, page 6
School board chairman
Baxter resides outside district
By Marybeth Bianchi
Feature Editor
The chairman of the B mas wick; County Board of Education no
longer resides in Ore district she was elected to represent, but she
doesn't think that is reason enough to step down because she plans
to move back before the summer is over,
Donna Baxter sad she sold her house on Forest Lane in Boiling
SprtogLakes thisspring after having itonthe market for four years,
"lhad an opportunity andltookit,” shesaid Tuesday. But ihatJeft
Set 'hf* m t0 ^ 50 she foumi tempowy residence in Long
f She said the six-month lease on the house in which she currently
resides expires in September and by that time she hopes to have
purchased another home to Boiling Spring Lakes.
Tm working on buying one In Boiling Spring Lakes right now.”
die said, explaining she is theprcrossofnegotiating with the owner
of a home of Sooth Shore Drive,
“I hope to be a resident of District4 before the summer runs out,”
die said. 1 miss Boiling Spring Lakes^”
in District 4, which iiKludes Boiling Spring Lakes and Town Cteek. I
andnms along M.C.21 1 front Supply totheColaiabosQjwayiiliM
diecooid not fOe to ran for the board of education if that seat wet®
on the ballot now. However, she said she plans Jo be back at thfel
district long before the filing period opens in January, 1994, v
She also acknowledged that there have been some que&kHiS
Clegg ousted,
Carter named
to LCFWSA
By Terry Pope
County Editor
The chairman of the Lower Cape
Fear Water and Sewer Authority
was removed from that board Tues
day night
Brunswick County commissioners
voted 3-2 to replace David Clegg
with Billy Carter of Yaupon Beach.
Clegg, who resigned as county
manager/attomey under political
pressure in March, was serving out
the remainder of his three-year term
which expires in April, 1995.
Commissioner Wayland Vereen,
who is a past member of the
authority, made the motion to re
place Clegg. Fellow Democratic
i members Tom Rabon and Don War
| ren also voted for the change.
"We just need someone who is
j more closely attached to us,” said
j Vereen.
i
‘David Clegg is
much more familiar
with it and much
more knowledge
able. I feel he
should stay on it.'
Donald Shaw
County commissioner
Carter, a Democrat, served as
county manager in the 1980s and
ran unsuccessfully for the Bruns
wick County Board of Education in
See Industry loan, page 6
County will assist
industry with loan
A company that plans to open a plastics manufacturing plant in
Leland will get help from the county.
Brunswick County commissioners voted Tuesday to seek $50,000
from the state’s Industrial Building Renovation Fund to help
Premier Molded Plastics Inc. upgrade a building in the Leland In
dustrial Park.
The county is not held liable for repayment of the three-percent,
low-interest loan, said Tom Monks, executive director of the Bruns
wick County Economic Development Commission. BB&T of Wil
mington will provide another $50,000 at eight-percent interest.
Co-owners Randolph J. Moore and George Millington plan to use
what they learned while working at the former Siemens Energy and
Automation Inc. plant in Wilmington to form their own company.
They will manufacture plastic components for electrical distribu
tion, appliances, power tools and thermostats. Siemens closed in
June, taking away approximately 150 jobs from the area.
Premier plans to hire 15 persons to start and expand to 42 in its
See Clegg ousted, page 6
Forecast
The extended forecast
Thursday through Sat
urday calls for partly
cloudy skies and hot
weather. Highs are ex
pected in the mid-90s,
with nighttime lows in
the 70s.
Tide table
HIGH
11:49 a m.
-p.m!
12:06 a.m.
12:32 p.m.
THURSDAY, JULY 8
FRIDAY, JULY 9
LOW
12:43 a.m.
1:14 p.m.
1:25 a.m.
2:05 p.m.
2:13 a.m.
2:54 pm.
SATURDAY, JULY 10
SUNDAY, JULY 11
MONDAY, JULY 12
5:39 a.m.
5:47 p.m.
•6:19 a.m.
6:32 p.m.
7:01 a.m.
7:20 p.m.
7:46 a.m.
8:13 p.m.
8:34 a.m.
9:12 pun.
TUESDAY, JULY 13
3:03 *-m- 9:26 a.m.
3:47 P-“- 10:12 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 14
4:°2«-m- 1021 a.m.
• , 11:11p.m.
The following adjustment* should be made:
Bald Head Island, high -10, low -7; Caswell
Beach, high -5, low -1; Southport, high +7,
tow +15; Yaupon Beach, high -32, tow -45
Lockwood Folly Inlet, high -22, tow -8.