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Schools, page 6B
Classifieds, p. 3C
Volume 63/ Number 12
WaMtaiifea
Southport, N.C.
November 10,1993/ 50 cents
City may
dig deep
for wells
By Holly Edwards
Municipal Editor
Southport’s existing water sup
plies do not meet state standards and
the city may need to soon invest
major capital in either a new well or
an additional interconnecting line to
the county’s water system, public
works director Ed Honeycutt told
the board of aldermen Tuesday
night.
Honeycutt said he came to these
conclusions while developing the
city’s Local Water Supply Plan, a
mandate by the state for all public
water suppliers to ensure adequate
water supplies for at least the next
decade.
The plan’s projections estimate the
city’s population in the year 2003
will be 5,451 and its daily water
usage will be over a million gallons
per day. By the year 2020, the city’s
populaiton was projected to be
7,140 with a daily water usage of
1.3 million gallons.
The board scheduled a work ses
sion to discuss the plan and the
city’s water supply problem for
See City wells, page 5
BSL board:
two trailers
‘dangerous’
By Terry Pope
County Editor
City officials claim two homes in
Boiling Spring Lakes are dangerous
to the neighborhood.
Commissioners instructed city at
torney Elva Jess on Tuesday to take
the owners to court.
Petitions will be filed in Bruns
wick County Superior Court asking
that a judge force the property
owners to comply with city building
codes and to make necessary repairs
or improvements.
Resolutions were passed by city
commissioners against two mobile
homes — one at 394 Holly Road,
owned by Fannie Faulk of Yaupon
Beach, and one at 1102 Warmoulh
Road, owned by Brian J. Todd.
"One is, well, you just don’t want
to look in the door," said com
missioner Bert Buckbee. "The guy is
in and out of the place. He’s burning
candles in there. Maybe the candle
should lip over, but...."
No action has been taken by the
owners to bring the homes into com
pliance with building codes within
the allowed time set by the board,
said Buckbee.
The resolutions declare the homes
dangerous to the health, safety and
See Lakes board, page 5
To the victors go the spoils -- the Pilot Trophy,
symbol of football supremacy in Brunswick County.
West Brunswick won that honor for the third
rnoio Dy vm tiarper
straight year and now prepares to enter the state 3A
playoffs. The Trojans host Northeast Guilford while
South Brunswick travels to take on Reidsville.
Watered-down proposal
Island fails to 'strike
while the iron is hot'
By Jim Harper
Staff Writer
The Bald Head Island village coun
cil voted Sunday to seek state permis
sion to require fire-suppressing sprin
kler systems in multi-family construc
tion, though no such construction is
presently planned on the island.
The village council also agreed to
seek permission to require monitored
fire alarms in all new residential con
struction.
The requests are to be sent to the
state building code council in time for
its quarterly meeting in December.
Action could be taken by the building
council then or deferred to a later
session.
Sunday's special session was part
of a response by village government
to the September 30 fire which de
stroyed the 38-unit S wansquarter con
dominium complex.
The village council on Sunday de
cided to delete references to single
family or commercial construction in
its bid for building council authority,
though those are the only two sorts of
construction anticipated on Bald Head
Island at this time.
Developer-councilman Kent
Mitchell, whose proposal was ap
proved Sunday, said Monday he had
no immediate plans for multi-family
building on Bald Head.
In Sunday's meeting Mitchell dis
suaded mayor Bill Watkins and coun
cilman Bill Leineweber from seeking
wider authority.
"We're asking for too much." he
said at one point. "We should come up
with a proposal we think may pass."
Though Watkins said he'd received
strong indication that a broader pro
posal would be acceptable, Mitchell
persisted.
"If you ask for too much, you stand
a chance of getting it all rejected," he
said. And he suggested that gentle
persuasion would encourage island
ers to build safety systems in their
construction projects.
"I feel there's a difference between
hitting people with a sledgehammer
and talking them into something,"
See Island, page 6
Bong ffgflc/E, CasweU Dunes
High THM levels recorded
WM?i
By Holly Edwards
Municipal Editor
Recent water samptes taken
in Caswell Beach and Long
Beach indicate high levels of
Trthahwnetbane (THM) that
i are in violation of state diinfc
ing-water standards* but
Brunswick County public
works director Jerry Webb
stressed thattheprd&lemdoes
not pose an immediate health
risk.
State health officials have proclaimed f
' that if a person drank two liters of
• water with high THM levels every day
for 70 years, that person s risk of get
ting cancer would be one in 10,000 j
"I don't think there’s any reason
to have any short-term fear of the
water,” he said,
Webb, county engineer Robert
Tuckerand stale public health
officials are currently study
ing possible solutions to the
problem, which include am
monia or ozone gas injections
at the central water plants.
Either method would affect
every user in the county,
Wetto said, andeveryone will
share in the costs or thecho
sensolutipn, Hesaid he hopes
to present recommendations
and coat estimates to county
Rose joins
opposition
to quarry
Congressman says
operation could be
'disaster' for area
By Terry Pope
County Editor
Opponents of a proposed limestone
mine north of Southport got a boost in
support last week when U. S. Con
gressman Charlie Rose joined the
battle.
In a strongly worded letter to
Charles Gardner, director of the N. C.
Department of Environment. Health
and Natural Resources. Rose labeled
Martin Marietta Aggregates' quarry
"an environmental disaster for
Brunswick County" and asked that
the company be denied state permits.
Rose, a Democrat, represents
Brunswick County residents in the
7th Congressional District.
... Members of the Brunswick Anti
Mining Alliance welcomed the news
and held another community rally
Monday night at the Centennial Cen
ter in Southport.
Martin Marietta officials have ap
plied for permits to dig for limestone
on a 1,000-acre tract between Bethel
Church Road and the access road to
Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point.
It plans to pump ten million gallons of
water per day from the ground to
expose the limestone bed and to dis
charge the water most likely in the
Cape Fear River.
‘The impact of this
project on marine
hatcheries,
ecosystems and in
digenous species,
especially those
unique to Bruns
wick County’s coas
tal ecology, could
be devastating and
irreversible.’
Rep. Charlie Rose
Criteria in the N. C. Administrative
Code of Mining states a permit may
be denied if it's determined the opera
tion will unduly or adversely affect
area wildlife, estuaries, surface wa
ter. drinking water or ground water
quality.
"1 believe this quarry will have an
adverse impact on all of the above."
stated Rose.
Many residents have wells con
nected to the Castle Hayne aquifer, an
abundant underground water source
that will be pumped by miners to a
See Quarry, page 6
Food handling
rules returned
to back burner
By Terry Pope
County Editor
New food service rules for county restaurant workers won't be served up
anytime soon.
The proposal will instead go back to a committee for revisions and possibly
some watering down.
By a 5-2 vote Monday, the Brunswick County Board of Health decided a
new food service manager certification program may be too stringent on
restaurant owners.
A committee of eight restaurant proprietors, three health department em
See Food, page 6
OUTSIDE
Forecast
The extended forecast
calls for partly cloudy
skies Thursday through
Saturday, with highs in
the 60s and lows in die
40s. Wanner weather is
expected Sunday, with
highs returning to the
70s and lo\fcs in the
50s.
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Tide table
HIGH LOW
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11
5:13a.m. 11:30 a.m.
528 pm. 11:44 pm
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12
6:10 ami. 1120 a.m.
624 p.m. 11:44 pan.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13
7:03 am. 1225 a.m.
7:18 Dim. 1:18pm.
^ SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14 P
726am. 127 am.
8:10 p.m. 2:09 pm.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15
8:48 am. 2:15 am.
9:02 pm. • ■ 229 pm.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16
929am. 3:05 am.
923 pm 3.-48 pm.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17
10:29 am. .* 323 am
10:47 pm. 429 pm.
: The following adjuumenu thoold he made:
Bald Head bland, high .10, low -7; Caiwell
5 Beach, high -5, low -1; Southport, high +7,
low -*-15; Yaupon Beach, high -32, low -45;
Lockwood Fouy Inlet, high-22, low-I,