f/ 19B5 THE ?*UNSW>CX BEACON HOPG ', ." ' * # - c I MSHHHBHHBHHHBBHBBHHBiBn DIGNITARIES took shovels In han for the (irst expansion of Brunswick ed In 1J77. At the left are Charles So Hospital BY SUSAN USHEIK A $3.2 million expansion am renovation project at Brunswicl Hospital in Supply should be com pleted by mid-1987, enhancing th hospital's ability to provide intensivi care and obstetrical services At a groundbreaking ceremony fa the project Sunday afternoon. Rober Sellers, chairman of the Brunswid II Cnnnfv Urtcnlfnl itifKv\rir?- ond Kcae. of trustees, described the expansioi as the "beginning of the final phas of a three-year effort to update an upgrade the hospital," facilitating the move toward a "full servic hospital " Other participants included Set R C. Soles Jr., Rep E. David Re< wine. Administrator Charles E. Sore staff surgeon Dr Mushtaq H. Khar and authority members Kennet Bellamy and Alfneda Ward Chn Chappell. chairman of the count s ideration < the proposed rules during a public sdajr in Wilmington ranged from pleas dc of such drastic" measures to com waposals were not stringent enough, ere support*** Sunset Beach Wednesday night the hr Plancma Board voted rm^mrTv* i?v oetponemml and farther study of the njuechoc with coastal communities, hnirnoan and beach drrekper Ed Gore piaraiing board memo to the CRC, !y Plainer John Harvey, which urged i positive development guidance farce, Satire ace at short term Thou Sfcaii led the "tremendous loss of tounso KK?1 3er 24, 1985 PnvA/nr Pi I W VV\^I I I f Water, F Kentucky coal per year and generate 945,000 pounds ot steam per hour, ac cording to Larry N. Frost, vice presi1 dent for corporate development. Cogentrix will produce all of the electricity needed to operate Pfizer's citric acid production plant and will : sell additional power to Carolina i Power & Light ) Its plant will produce electricity ! cheaper than the oil-burning facility Pfizer now relies on. ( "This will put Pfizer in a more com< petitive position" with corporate , t. iii^i l? n " - lucuiues ui L-onnccucui ana inaiana, i said Pfizer plant manager Robert Nubel, increasing the likelihood of I expansion at the jthport plant. "We will be totally dependent on their steam. Without it, we don't i make pound one of citric acid," he added. Cogentrix will require a steady flow of up to four million gallons of water per day, an amount not available from the county's current water plant on N.C. 211, but which will be available upon completion of ^ * . * ^ d Sunday afternoon to "break ground" Hospital at Supply since Its doors opeons, Sen. R.C. Soles Jr., Rep. David RedLaunches $C commissioners, and Billy Carter, 1 county manager, sent their regrets, c The project will be the first expan si0,1 since the 60-bed hospital began i operation in November 1977 on a e shoestring budget. It will include conversion of four r medical/surgical beds into a fourt bed intensive care/coronary care I unit, addition of one operating room i and two minor procedure rooms by n replacing the old delivery and labor e rooms with a new labor and delivery i suite and C-section room, an expand % ed emergency room with trauma e bays, triage area and waiting room, addition of an ultrasound and nuclear l medicine suite in the radiology area, I- expansion and rcucsigr. of the adt, ministrative and business/accounU ting office areas, addition of a b private dining room, and expansion s of the engineering and storage areas y The hospital's long-troublesome 0/ Water Qi revenues that could result from rep wouldn't solve the problem. Gore sard large inland waters! drain across Brunswick County ar point pollution of area waters , th evidence indicate development of Sci beaches is responsible- He said the a study that says the difference in wate Don adycaning developed and uodev agEffkaet, about 10 percent. He suggested also that the " diametrically opposed" to current reeulationa Meanwhile, with CPX tdcpuoi i saudpated FrvSty. at Brunzwu? Co week bmhftng tmpcctori' office* ?w pbcabaoi (or Vocal CAMA permit*, pr ' - ' *?r* **???? '? * fc. _ ? V _ _ 8EACC 25c Per Copy ant Will % * to viae j the 24mgd surface water treatment plant at Malmo next year. The water it discharges into the Cape Fear River will be recaptured through condensation of steam, according to deSherbinin, and will be of excellent quality. Production wastewater and stormwater runoff will both be treated before discharge. Sanitary waste will go into Pfizer's treatment plant. Frost said. /vii puuuuun-cwurui systems Hi me plant wiii be "100 percent redundant," Frost said, meaning that one-half of the systems can fail and still provide the plant 100 percent coverage. Those systems include the use of "bag houses," Teflon-lined fiberglass bags that capture particulate waste such as soot in a giant vacuum system. According to deSherbinin, the plant will "actually improve the air quality" because it will release less particulates into the atmosphere than Pfiier's existing system. . . * . ' ... wine and Robert Sellers. At right ari Kenneth Bellamy and Rev. Dan Norn i.2 Million I sewage treatment plant will be replaced. To round out the project, said Betsy Lewis, community relations director, other areas will be redecorated. Thp nrftiM UfhinVi urill Ka finonrvwl by Hospital Corporation of America, which has leased the facility from the Authority, and the hospital in a 60-40 split that will involve no county tax dollars. The improvements would be accomplished with no significant increase in operating costs and with what Sons called "the lowest rate increase in the history of the hospital." Speaking for the medical staff to a group of about 60 wellwishers, Dr. Mushiaq H. Khan, a surgeon, said the proposed improvements will help doctors serve their patients "more efficiently and ably." Sen. .Soles stressed that the health of the nation and the local communljality ilations Gore said family resident* bed systems that Tbepropoae e responsible for within the TVfoo at no studies as estuartne shore! or Ocean Llia rlraa IC haa available a Aj flrrt dn r quality degrade- prevented drrti doped Lands toil tKruiarty canal 1 meaaure lea* Ox propoaaia art oepltd Last week Hate septic tack used "If you thud of the regulation* figured there a saty hew*? IsjS Bnaewtdi Coon e flooded with ap- xtrA at Hatura Unaniy for xiogieb ^ HOfO?? SUiANU&Htlt ? Alfrieda Ward, Dr. Munhtaq Khan, ian. Expansion j tv depends in |>art on the availability o( good medical facilities. "It is very unusual to have the facilities you have here and what is projected without a large expen