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on Horns Kinston officials have a tiger by the tail. Under orders from the State Stream Sanitation Commission to stop dumping untreated sewage in Neuse River by 1969, Kinston officials have spent long and dif ficult months studying, visiting, consulting and coming up with the method they feel is best for the immediate and long range needs of the city in this vital area. But the city has struck out twice in efforts to convince dif ferent sets of consulting engi neers that their plan is the best plan. Kinston officials, supported by on-the-scene visits to numerous lagoon treatment systems and by the strong recommendations of highly placed public health of ficials, are committed to a sys tem of treatment lagoons. But the city’s first engineer, W. C. Olsen Company of Raleigh, threw millions of dollars worth of cold water on the lagoon sys tem and insisted that the extend ed aeration system be used. After orders from the city coun cil Olsen’s engineers did design a 26-acre experimental lagoon, ' but the design was so poor and the system so inadequate city of ficials paid Olsen off and hired a new engineer. The new engineering firm is L. E. Wooten and Company of Raleigh. The report Wooten’s boys were asked to make is now in the hands of city officials and / it is a repeat performance of that filed by Olsen. Just as Olsen, Wooten outlines preliminary planning for both the lagoon and extended aera tion systems, but separates them in the Olsen fashion by putting a price tag of $1,704,000 on the aeration system and a price tag of $2,884,000 on the lagoon sys tem. The only variation in the two proposals is that Olsen recom mended location of the lagoons five miles south of Kinston in the general vicinity of Simon Jack son’s home. This was too ridicu lous and too costly to merit even a second glance by Kinston of ficials. Wooten’s recommendation is slightly less absurd than Olsen’s but it also suggests putting the major lagoon areas over three miles east of Kinston in the general vicinity of Oak Bridge — at least more than half way downstream from the existing la goon to Oak Bridge. The cost of force mains and pumping stations to move the city’s sewage these great dis tances and the cost of acquiring land in both proposals are the items that inflate the cost of la goon systems out of proportion to reality. Wooten’s report says, “The principal disadvantage of Alter nate No. 1 (the lagoons) are; it is the most expensive of the two plans proposed, the lagoon plan is not as flexible as the extend ed aeration process in treating possible future industrial waste, Pawn Specials 1—Zenith Pert. T.V. $35.00 1—S. B. SHOTGUN $5.00 1—Pr. Electric CLIPPERS_$5.00 1—L. Elect. Shaver $3.00 Variety of CAMERAS_$1.00 up I—M. Vi C. Diamond RING___$99.95 LOAN A JEWELERS 311 N. Queen St. ;j|j Kinston, N. C. Licensed Pawn Broker PHILLIPS a large amount of land will have to be purchased to take care of | present and foreseeable future needs and ‘lagoons are subject to occasional upsets which could at times result in disagreeable odors in the immediate area. Officials Answer . Countering Wooten’s arguments Kinston officials offer these con tradictions: “If the unnecessary costs Woot en has added to the lagoon sys tem are subtracted the cost for lagoons will be far less than for extended aeration.” These subtractions include $30, 000 for clearing borrow pits, which is already largely,complet ed, $30,000 for clearing present lagoon site area, this also is within a matter of weeks being completed, $300,000 for additions to the dike around this area, $92,500 for concrete lining up to the water level of the pro posed lagoons, $27,000 for fenc ing and $9,000 for sewing grass seeds. These deductions are not made at random by city officials but are done on the basis of what they have seen in other cities and on the basis of what they have been told by highly compe tent people in the public health field. The total estimated cost refer red to above include collector mains that extend from Frosty Morn Packing Company to whichever systems eventually are built! The total estimated costs Woot en comes up with for the actual sewagp treatment plants are $1, 298,000 for lagoons which includes nothing for land acquis ition and $674,000 for the ex tended aeration system. Further countering Wooten’s opposition to lagoons, Kinston officials say the city already has enough land at its present site to provide all the lagoons the city needs now and for the fore seeable future. The basis of this is the fact that Goldsboro — considerably larger Qian Kinston —is now nearing completion of a lagoon system that will include 200 acres and Goldsboro officials say they believe and their engi neers tell them this will take care of Goldsboro’s needs in this category for 200 years on the ba sis of present population growth. Kinston owns approximately 400 acres in the area where the experimental lagoon is now lo cated. and can obtain more Just across the railroad if more land is needed. Kinston officials deny the necessity of running force mains half way to ‘Oak Bridge and buying more land and more easements when they already have far more land than Golds boro is using for its treatment area. Kinston officials insist that a system with six to eight lagoons would be much more flexible than a single extended aeration plant that might suffer a me chanical breadown or industrial sewage “upset” that would knock it out of operation for un foreseeable lengths of time. The Goldsboro plant is designed so any of its lagoons may be taken 1 out of use and the flow directed I to either or all depending upon the day-by-day needs. The' final answer about dis agreeable odors is that lagobns cannot be built within 1000 feet of any inhabited areas, and of ficials say they have visited num erous lagoon areas, including the one in La Grange which has! been visited under every con ceivable kind of weather condi tion and have not yet been con fronted by any disagreeable odors. | One official said the appar ent difference is that Goldsboro I employed an out-of-state engi neer to design its lagoon system and he was not dominated by the State Stream Sanitation Commis sion in Raleigh to the extent that both Olsen and Wooten are. But a decision must be made in the very near future because the target date for completion of Kinston’s sewage treatment sys tem — of whatever kind — is December 31,1968 and such p'ro- 1 jects are not built with magic wands. Barry Jones on Duty in Thailand Airman Third Class Barry W. Jones of Trenton is now on duty with the Air Force in Thailand. Airman Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. Aiken E. Jones of Route 1, Trenton, serves as a weapons mechanic with Air Force adyjy^ ory personnel who support am?* space defense and training ae(& ities — closely coordinated imfc the Royal Thai .Air Force. The airman, a graduate Si Jones Central High School ft* tended Chowan College. His wife, Marian, Is the daugh^ ter of Mr. and Mrs. Harris KL Dail of Route 2, Trenton. 1 c . .4 .-/. ■ li&La 5 Mustang zooms past its first million starts on its second with a Special Mustang Sale! Great buys on the greatest new-car success in history! Every Mustang has bucket seats, sporty shift plush carpeting, rich vinyl upholstery, and in April—your personal namoplate! Choose a big 200-cu. in. Six or a hot V-B Option. Join America's happiest car owners now...and savol i Hitll Millionth Mustang Month. 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