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I Plants cited for odors
in Swannanoa
by Dan Ward
Three Swannanoa plants
ve been asked by the
gional Air Pollution Control
ard to meet with that board
explain why they are
iducing odorous emissions
The three plants, Chem
nics. Winston Dyeing and
nshing and Charles D.
en Manufacturing, have
in the subject of com
ints from area residents
According to Ronald G.
Boone, director of the
Regional Air Pollution Control
Agency, all three plants were
cited as emitting unpleasant
odors. Although laws exist
governing odorous emissions,
they are difficult to enforce
when the emissions are not
harmful, Boone said. None of
the plants has been cited for
poisonous emmissions, Boone
said.
In addition, the Winston
plant was cited as expelling
visable emmissions Boone
said those emmissions were
the result of a defective boiler,
which has since been fixed.
Contrary to charges that the
plants were not cooperating
with inspectors, Boone said
that there have been no
problems inspecting the
plants, except in a case where
an inspector was kept waiting
at the Owen plant.
Violations found during
inspections are now being
corrected, Boone said.
Three women accepted
forSwannanoa VFD
Two women have been
cepted as firefighters for
tSwannanoa Volunteer Fire
■partment, raising the
mber of women firefighters
the department to three.
With the acceptance of Sue
lams and Karen Lee, the
Swannanoa department now
has more female firefighters
than any other department in
Buncombe County.
The two women will also be
trained in rescue procedures.
They are currently taking an
advanced first aid course
being taught by the depart
ment.
The two new tirewomen join
Barbara Settle as women
firefighters in Swannanoa.
Their acceptance raises
enroUement for the depart
ment to 30 firefighters.
IWater-use climbs
despite ordinance
According to readings taken
y the Black Mountain Water
lepartment, households In
lack Mountain have in
reased water use although
ie water level in the Black
lountain Reservoir continues
idrop.
According to outtake meter
eadmgs, water consumption
as gone up by 4000 gallons
er day during the last week.
Town Manager Jon
reighton said that the out
age may be even greater than
he meter shows. Intake
leasurements taken from
beams flowing into the
hinsmore Cove Reservoir
re about equal to outtake
eadings, Creighton said,
lowever, the water level is
actually dropping. Creighton
said that the town may have to
purchase a new meter to
replace the present one,
believed by Creighton to have
been installed in the 90s.
Traffic changes
The yellow flashing light at
the intersection of Blue Ridge
Road and NC 9 will soon be
moved to the corner of US 70
and Craigmont Road, ac
cording to W.B. Cochran,
division traffic engineer for
the Department of Tran
sportation, in a letter to Aid.
Ruth Brandon, Black
Mountain representative on
public safety.
Mrs. Brandon also noted
that a sign has been posted on
Montreat Road at State Street
warning that a right tarn is not
allowed there on a red light.
She said many older persons
have complained that there Is
not enough time to cross the
street when cars are turning.
Black Mountain Police have
charged Glen Bartlett of
Black Mountain with in
timidating a witness in con
nection with fartlettk trial for
Bird watching
This cal, photographed by Todd Byrns, is either having identity problems or
has discovered the purrfect spot for birdwatching*
Police Report
assaun.
Bartlett has been charged
with stabbing Walt Tipton of
Black Mountain at Lake
Tomahawk on August 20.
Bartlett allegedly threatened
to bring harm to a witness in
that case if he testified.
Police reported an accident
on Montreat Road September
Can recycling with a flair
by Dan Ward
Although a number of
igestions have been made
recycling old cans, few are
mce as James Andrews’
Andrews, who lives in
annanoa with his wife,
Betty, makes Victorian doll
furniture out of old cans.
“Theyd be good for doll
houses,’ Andrews said of the
tiny chairs, sofas and beds he
fashions with tinsnips and
pliers. "After theyfe painted,
you cant get cut on them.’
"I sold a few of them,’ he
said. “A lot of people use them
for pin cushions or what-not.'
Andrews, who learned how
to make his first chair from
James Rogers, a co-worker at
the WNC Hospital, said it now
takes him only an hour to
make one of the intricate mini
furnishings. He sells them, to
friends for $1.50 each.
“It took me a lot longer to
make the first ones,'he said.
“The first two flhiade, I threw
away-they didnt look so hot.'
Now he finds himself
looking for unusually shaped
cans in the supermarket to
extend his imagination further
in his hobby. Hei found that
tobacco cans make good
couches, chopped ham cans
the best footstools and a
coffee can the best bed.
“A juice can wont work, itf
too stiff,’ he warned.
“Aluminum wont work either
-it uncurls right out.’
For those interested in
making the can furniture,
Andrews gives these steps.
Cut one of the ends off a
soda-size can to make a chair.
With tinsnips, cut about 40
strips the length of the can,
leaving them attached to the
other end. These strips will
be about ‘4 of an inch wide.
Bend the strips in relation to
the can top in the following
order-four down, si* up, four
down, 12 up, four down, six up
then four down. Cut the
remaining strips off to use as
binders for the various
curlycues The four sets of
strips bent down will become
legs, the rest will be armrests
and the chair back. An en
terprising craftsman can use
two cans to create a can-top
chair back such as the one in
the photo.
To make the upholstry, cut a
cardboard circle the size of
the can top. Cover it with i
cotton and a scrap of material
Spray paint the chair before
upholstering, of course
As if doll furniture building
is not hobby enough for one
man, Andrews also creates
intricate string-art sculp
tures. He is now working on a
large clipper ship.
22. There were no injuries.
They issued four traffic
citations, escorted three
funerals and answered 115
calls last week.
Planning Board backs
extended zoning
by Dan Ward
The Black Mountain
Planning Board decided in its
September 21 meeting to ask
the Town Board to implement
the existing Subdivision Or
dinance.
It was decided to send a
letter to the Town Board
asking that the ordinance be
recorded with the Registrar of
Deeds, as required by law.
The ordinance was passed in
1969, but has not been utilized
since then.
Regarding that section of
the ordinance giving the
Zoning Board authority in
subdivision regulations up to
one mile outside the town
limits, the Planning Board is
requesting that the Town
Board have a map drawn,
with the help of an engineer,
describing the area of
jurisdiction.
The Planning Board is also
requesting that additional
members, from outside the
town limits, be appointed to
the Zoning Board to represent
persons living in the area to
come under town zoning.
The board also heard Robert
Fischer, chairman of the
Zoning Board of Adjustments,
who said that the zoning
iurisdictinn eranted under the
Subdivision Ordinance is not
adequate to prevent obnoxious
development from occurring
around Black Mountain.
The Subdivision Ordinance
gives the Zoning Board control
only over areas being sub
divided. The Zoning Board
still has no jurisdiction over
standards in mobile home
parks, junkyards and noisy
businesses in residential
areas, Fischer said.
Most of the Town Board,
with the exception of Aid.
Ruth Brandon, has opposed
town zoning jurisdiction
outside the town limits. (See
editorials on page 2).
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Immediate
problems
Part one:
by D411 Ward
Ed. note-This article is part
of a series outlining Black '
Mounts ink water system, its
problems and suggested
solutions. This article wOl
focus on immediate
suggestions made by Aid.
John Mundy, the town
representative on water and
sewer, at the September 12
town meeting. Long-term
suggestions will be discussed
in a later article.
Sky High and McCoy Cove
Mundyk only suggestion
voted on at the latest town
Board meeting was that a
surcharge be placed on users
of water being pumped from
the McCoy Cove and Sky High
Reservoirs.
The two reservoirs are
subsystems of the main
system utilizing water from
the Dunamore Cove Reser
Registration set
Voter registration for the
November Town of Black
Mountain elections will be
held at the Eagles Nest from
noon to 5 p.m. on October 1
and October 8. The Eagles
Candidate
announces
MAKK HOOPKK. of 113
Byrd Hd., has announced for
the upcoming election for
Black Mountain Town Board.
Hooper, who is a self
employed landscaper, has run
for alderman on three
previous occasions, lie is the
only Black candidate to enter
the race so far.
Nest, near the Clubhouse, is
the regular polling place for
the third precinct.
Persons may register any
time at the Board of Elections
office at the County Building
in Asheville. They may also
register with registrars for
their precincts. Appointments
may be made by contacting
the registrars, who are
Precinct t-Jenny Black,
Precinct 2-Susie Patton,
Precionct 3-Mary Sobol, or
Precinct 4-Barbara Harris.
voir. Due to the altitude of
houses on McCoy Cove Road
and in Sky High Acres,
separate pumps must be used
to supply water to tboss-areas
-both of which are outside the
town limits.
Mundy calculated the ad
ditional cost to the town for
electricity, pump main
tenance and pump
depreciation to be 51 cents per
1000 gallons for McCoy Cove,
and 45 cents per 1000 gallons
for Sky High.
The board approved
Mundyk suggestion that a 50
cents per 1000 gallon sur
charge be added to bills for
Sky High and McCoy Cove
residents.
The surcharge, Mundy said,
was the only fair alternative to
annexing those households. In
the event those households
eventually become annexed,
the surcharge would be
dropped, Mundy suggested.
Bi-monthly billing
Mundy also cited a
recommendation made by
Cummings Engineering in
1975 that meters be read every
three months rather than
every month, as done now.
The study also showed that it
would save the town money to
bill every two months rather
than monthly. Savings in
postage alone would be $1,632
per year, Mundy said. Only
half of the town 9 1700
customers would have to be
billed each month.
The only drawback to a
quarterly meter reading
would be that it would take
longer to detect breaks in the
system. The town would save
the salary or labor of one of its
two full-time meter readers.
RIC HARD, a friend of the News staff, wasted
little time in making friends with a migrating
Monarch butterfly. At this time of year, millions of
Monarch* migrate from Canada to Mexico-- no
small chore for such a frail-looking creature. (Dan
Ward)
Broken meters
Mundy suggested charging
those with broken meters their
average monthly rate. At
present, citizens with broken
meters are charged the
minimum rate.
He also suggested charging
customers who have their
water disconnected seasonally
the minimum rate even
though they do not receive
water. Services for those
meters and the system in
general continue although the
water for a particular meter is
shut off, Mundy pointed out
Minimum pressure standards
I
Pressure over a 24 hour
period should be measured in
the higher elevations where an
additional water hookup is
requested, Mundy said. The
recording of pressure would
guarantee that pressure
comes up to Health Depart
ment standards and would not
impair the pressure for
existing households. For
higher elevations within the
town, building permits should
not be issued until the water
pressure for the proposed
housing is measured, Mundy
recommended.
Standardization
Mundy recommended that
the town standardize its
system and set standard
specifications for future
reservoirs, pumps and
distribution systems.
A good deal of cost and
trouble in the water system
has been the result of different
types of systems with parts
that are not interchangeable,
Mundy said.
Water sources
Mundy proposed as an
immediate solution to the
water shortage and a long
term means of complying with
Health Department standards
the drilling of two 40-gailons
per-minute wells.
He suggested that the wells
be placed near the Dunsmore
Cove reservoir and be used
only when they are needed, or
to drill them near or on the
golf course. If placed on the
west side of town, the wells
would be accompanied by a
water storage system and
chlorinator. The storage
system could be gravity fed
from the Dunsmore Cove
reservoir and serve as a
storage system for the town in
the event that a problem
developed in the Dunsmore
Cove Reservoir.
At the town meeting, Mundy
said he will determine the cost
of drilling two additional wells
and report to the board in the
near future.