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tional 1,800 acres, which would
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those intentions last Wednesday.
FAA Program Development
Supervisor Howard Robinson said
Friday, "If they (the airport commission)
tell us they will resolve that
issue and take that land out of Mr.
Gale's lease, that would solve the
problem we have."
Robinson added that if the airport
should remain in non-compliance, it
could be declared ineligible for
future funding but would not be required
to repay federal monies that
were received in the past.
The airport currently is seeking
three grant applications for more
than $1.7 million, Robinson said. According
to Gale, the monies would be
used for construction of a parallel
taxiway, expansion of the runway
ramp and completion of an airport
layout plan update.
Filling The Vacancy
County commissioners were
scheduled to name Parker's replacement
at their regular Aug. 1 session.
However, they delayed the appointment
in order to give the airport commission
and representatives from
Southport, Long Beach and Boiling
Spring Lakes opportunities to comment
on the matter at last
Thursday's special meeting, according
to Ms. Beasley.
"This board is going to be prepared
to discuss that (the airport lease),"
she stated at the Aug. 1 meeting.
"We're going to do our homework."
But at the outset of last Thursday's
meeting, Ms. Beasley read a brief,
prepared statement which pointed
out that' 'the only direct influence the
tour government entities have exercised
over the (airport) commission
has been in the nature of appointments
to its board."
She added that county commissioners
were in no position "to mandate
that the airport commission
take or refrain from taking any
specific action. It is not the position
of the Board of County Commissioners
to act as a referee over ini
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dependent contractural obligations
of the airport commission nor of its
fixed-base operator or any business
decisions of that operator."
Following her statement and a motion
by Commissioner Frankie
Rabon, Williamson's appointment
was unanimously approved without
discussion.
After the meeting, Commissioners
Chris Chappell and Benny Ludlum
said Williamson had contacted them
to ask for the appointment before
they attended the annual conference
of the National Association of Counties
in Anaheim, Calif., Aug. 5
through 11. Also, Chappell confirmed
that he discussed the matter with
Ludlum and Commissioner Jim
Poole in California.
However, Rabon said he made the
nomination with no earlier contact
from Williamson or the other four
commissioners over tne appointment.
"I have a lot of confidence in
Mr. Williamson being a good
businessman," Rabon said, adding
that he did not tell anyone?including
the other commissioners?who he
planned to nominate prior to last
Thursday's meeting.
But Airport Commissioner John
Walters told the Beacon that he was
informed before the meeting that
Williamson would be appointed. "It
was just a phone call," he said,
declining to identify the caller.
Giving His Best Shot
Williamson confirmed last Thursday
that he asked Chappell and
Ludlum for the appointment after he
read about the airport commission's
difficulties concerning the lease, bul
maintained, "Normally I wouldn't dc
something like this."
"I feel like I can render some
know-how on the business end of it,"
he said, adding that he would "give il
(his) best shot."
When interviewed after last Thursday's
meeting, all five commissioners
indicated that they fell
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including the FAA.
Former Airport Commission
Chairman Conrad was pleased with
the county commissioners' choice.
"I'm delighted to have a man of Mr.
Odell Williamson's business experience
and expertise on the
board," Conrad said, "and I'm
delighted that a man as busy as him
is willing to serve."
Although he also noted the
developer's airport experience,
Walters was more reserved. "Mr.
Williamson might be all right," he
said. "I always try to judge
somebody by their actions .. . We'll
have to wait and sec."
According to Ocean Isle Beach
Town Clerk Alberta Tatum, Williamson
is the head of Ocean Isle
Aeronautics, which operates the
town-owned airport. "Anything we
do out there, he's in charge of it," she
said.
But the county commissioners and
Williamson himself said his involvement
with both airports would not
result in a conflict of interests. Gale
also echoed Williamson's statement
that the airports are "two different
types of operations." In addition,
Robinson said the FAA had no problem
with Williamson being affiliated
with more than one airport.
And while admitting that he owns
as of yet undeveloped timberland adjoining
two sides of the county airport,
Williamson said his ownership
1 of that property was not "an overriding
interest" in his desire to serve
i on the airport board.
; "They've got a good little airport,"
said Williamson, who has been a pilot
since 1942, "but it's pathetic that they
! keep staying in the news."
Gale said he tliinks Williamson's
t "objectivity should be able to pull the
(airport) board together."
"I believe that if the airport comt
mission can come together and we
i can be a team again, I think we can
s make it," Gale said. "The last 14
- months have been a major struggle."
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BY RAHN ADAMS
Although stormwater runoff hasn't
become a problem in southwestern
Brunswick County this year due to
dry conditions, efforts are continuing
to reactivate the Cawcaw Drainage
District.
Soil and water conservation officials
and two of the drainage
district's three commissioners held
an organizational meeting last
Thursday in Calabash to discuss proposed
boundaries for the district and
the means of reactivating it.
Attending the one-hour meeting at
Calabash Town Hall were Drainage
Commissioners O. Kendall Bellamy
and Jennings Edge; Brunswick
County Soil and Water Conservation
District Board Chairman James
Bellamy; area and state soil conservation
officials John Garrett, Phil
Edwards, Billy Jones, Dean
Bingham and David Combs; and
local soil conservation staff
members Harold Jones and Baker
Harrell. Drainage Commissioner
Wendell Bennett was absent.
The Cawcaw Drainage District
was established in 1959, followed by
the completion of 16.5 miles of canals
in 1967. The district orieinallv was
designed to drain about 40,000 acres
of farmland in southwestern
Brunswick County.
In December 1976, the Brunswick
County Clerk of Court's office
dissolved the drainage district,
although opinions issued by the N.C.
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was included in the permit application.
"If that's a missing part as I
suspect it is, then it's an incomplete
application," said Parker. "It's sort
of an oversight on both sides."
A sewage treatment plan is vital to
the application, he said, since most of
the concern voiced by environmental
agencies and local fishermen has
focused on the coliform bacteria,
touna in sewage, wnicn otten causes
shellfish closures.
Coastal Management has to make
a decision on the permit application
by Sept. 1, according to Parker, but a
decision on the project can be
delayed if the application is incomplete.
"There's no action planned this
week and we're looking at the entire
record to see if anything's missing,"
he added. "To even consider an action
without knowledge of sewage
treatment is ludicrous."
The Marine Fisheries comments
submitted last week were revised
from previous comments, which opposed
the marina for different
reasons. When the first comments
were submitted, it was thought the
marina would cause the automatic
closure of shellfish beds.
Following a meeting with
developers last month, however,
Marine Fisheries announced that it
would drop its opposition to the project
because it would not result in the
automatic closure of shellfish
waters.
Hogarth said the most recent
reversal in opinion resulted frorr
concern for local shellfishermen ant
the potential damage to the resourct
and was not a result of outsidf
political pressure.
Although there will he nr
automatic closure of oyster or clair
beds with the Lockwood Foil)
Marina, Hogarth said every othei
marina in the state has a shellfisl
closure associated with it.
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Attorney General's office in 1977 and
1987 stated that the dissolution was
improper.
Since much of the affected area
now includes valuable residential
and commercial property, soil and
water conservation officials renewed
discussion of reactivating the district
last October. About 175 residents of
the area in and around the drainage
district supported its reactivation at
a public hearing held by Brunswick
County Commissioners last
November.
On Feb. 29, Brunswick County
Clerk of Court Diana Morgan cleared
the way for reactivation of the
district by setting aside the 1976
order which dissolved it. Her action
was in response to a request made
last December by county commissioners
and the local soil and water
conservation board.
According to James Bellamy, the
group discussed extending the
district boundaries by approximately
1,800 acres. Trie largest areas to be
added include Carolina Shores near
Calabash and timberland on N.C. 130.
"Right now we're just getting into
the starting stages of it (reactivation
of the district)," Harold Jones told
the Beacon Friday. He added that no
official action has been taken to extend
the boundaries.
Jones indicated that either the N.C.
Division of Soil and Water Conservation
or the U.S. Soil Conservation Service
will do an engineering study
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resource," he added. "I just felt like
we weren't doing our job unless we
did object to it."
Since there is no automatic
closure, however, Hogarth said the
Marine Fisheries comment "may not
have as much teeth" as it normally
would. "There's some question as to
whether Coastal Management will
pay attention to it or not."
In most permit application reviews
for marinas, Marine Fisheries comments
weigh heavily on the decision
to issue or deny the permit. Of the 10
state agencies which comment on the
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cepting offers from interested property
owners for sites between Gause
Landing near Ocean Isle Beach and
Calabash.
tsenion said tne postal service
received about a half dozen offers
and decided the best site was on N.C.
904 at Seaside. "This is definitely
their first choice."
While Gordon would not confirm
that the postal service has an option
to purchase the land, he did say
negotiations are continuing with property
owners.
If the postal service cannot come
up with adequate funds this fall or the
i property owners decide against the
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canals.
District Board Chairman Kendall
Bellamy also said a survey needs to
be done involving property outside of
the old boundaries to determine
"how the district can best serve"
property owners in areas which may
be added.
"It'll take several months,"
Bellamy said. "There's a lot of
groundwork that has to be done
before you get in there and start
working."
Another issue that drainage commissioners
must decide is how to
fund the district, whether through
county assistance, formation of a service
or special assessment district,
or some other method of assessing
property owners.
James Bellamy estimated that the
cost of restoring the canal system to
its original state will be around
$120,000. He added that annual
maintenance of the district would
probably cost $10,000 to $15,000.
Bellamy said federal funds may be
available to finance work on a portion
of the district. Also, state monies
may be available on a one-time basis,
he added.
Later this month, Jones and Kendall
Bellamy plan to meet with
Brunswick County Attorney David
Clegg to discuss legal aspects of setting
new boundaries and reactivating
the district.
leinstated
proposal, other key ones are Coastal
Management, Environmental
Management and Shellfish Sanitation.
Coastal Management submits comments
in two levels. Parker said the
field report was favorable for the
marina, but the permit decision is
ultimately up to David Owens, director
of Coastal Management.
Both Environmental Management
and Shellfish Sanitation, a section of
the N.C. Division of Health Services,
have voiced concerns about the project
but do not oppose it.
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sale, he said the station will have to
be delayed several years.
It would take about 18 months to go
through the site selection process and
purchase agreement from scratch,
he said, and those processes could
not begin again until the project
reached the top of the priority list. All
of that, he said, could take anywhere
between two and five years.
The Sunset Beach Planning Board
recently sent a letter to the postal
service in an effort to determine its
interest in the property after the current
land owners indicated an interest
in annexation. Town Administrator
Linda Fluegel said the
postal service never responded.
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