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LOCAL MAINTENANCE WORKI
Lcnnon Road off N.C. 211.
DOT Acq
To Keep
BY RAHN ADAMS
If the ditches are less than five feet
deep and run along certain rural
roads, the Brunswick County Department
of Transportation office now
has just the thing to keep them clean:
the first ditching machine of its kind
to be used in the state.
According to local highway
maintenance engineer David
Thomas, Brunswick County recently
began using an Italian-made Dondi
ditcher that will allow DOT to do
Dlanned ditch maintpnancp anrl it
, UIIU uv
the same time free up standard
equipment for other maintenance
jobs.
"I think it has great potential,"
Thomas said of the new piece of
equipment. "Over the long run, it's
going to be very beneficial."
The $43,000 ditcher, which Thomas
said is the first to be used in North
Carolina, was purchased last month
for the DOT district that covers
Brunswick and New Hanover counties.
South Carolina's highway
department has successfully used
Dondi ditchers for about eight years,
Thomas noted.
County Re
rii iuni_t? vj
The 1988 race for governor has
been an expensive proposition, with
Gov. Jim Martin raising nearly $5
million in the last two years and Lt.
Gov. Bob Jordan raising about $4.1
million.
According to the N.C. Campaign
Reporting Office, the following
Brunswick County residents contributed
to a gubernatorial campaign
during the most recent filing period
for the candidates.
MARTIN
Jerry D. Lewis, Shallotte, $1,000;
J.C. Meismer, Long Beach, $125;
M.K. Mitchell, Southport, $3,000;
Lyman E. Clark, Yaupon Beach,
$170; Dinah E. Gore, Sunset Beach,
$1,000; Helen O. Pope, Ocean Isle
Beach, $1,000; Robert H. Wilson,
Yaupon Beach, $1,075; Edna
Milliken, Shallotte, $200; Robert
Bellamy, Shallotte, $200; B.M. Long,
Shallotte, $300; Dan Harrelson,
Southport, $375; H.B. Lee, Leland,
$125; J.M. Pope, Ocean Isle Beach,
$1,250; W.A. Roach, Shallotte, $1,200.
Also, Carolyn R. Roberts, Supply,
$250; Robert E. Smith, Southport,
$125; Michael Bauerschmidt, Holden
Beach, $250; H.M. Brazeal, Sunset
Beach. $250: Larrv W Rrnum
Shallotte, $1,000; C.B. Caroon,
Southport, $250; Brenda Causey,
Ocean Isle Beach, $250; W.A.
English, $250, Shallotte; Annette T.
Carringer, Shallotte, $250; John T.
Fazekas, Shallotte, $300; Gregory
Gore, Sunset Beach, $500; W.D. Harrelson,
Shallotte, $250; Davis Herring
Jr., Southport, $250; Ernest Hewett,
Supply, $350; Michael Hobbs, Holden
Beach, $1,000; Alan Holden, Holden
Beach, $250.
Also, Delores Holden, Supply, $500;
Scott Irby III, Shallotte, $1,000; Rick
Joyner, Shallotte, $500; Lee
Langston, Shallotte, $250; Alan C.
Lewis, Shallotte, $250; Robert Long,
Shallotte, $250; Gerald Long,
Shallotte, $300; W.J. McLamb Jr.,
Shallotte, $250; James H. Milliken,
Shallotte, $125; Alan L. Morrison,
Shallotte, $1,000; Coolidge Murrow,
Long Beach, $250; A1 Odom, Sunset
Beach, $250; William Powell,
Shallotte, $250; Bruce Quaintancc,
Ocean Isle Beach, $250; Alphonza
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Donnjc Kirby operates DOT'S nc
uires New
Ditches Cle
District Engineer Jim Cook said
the ditcher will be used mostly in
Brunswick County. "Right now the
need for ditching and maintenance of
that type is in Brunswick County," he
said, adding that the machine probably
can be used on 60 percent of the
county's 753 miles of statemaintained
roads.
The hydraulic ditcher is pulled by a
100-horsepower tractor that was
r?ll e nmito/J ? ?' * "
v.uoLuiuii,ta ?1 L11 a siuw-moving
"creeper gear." Sets of blades in the
ditching machine take in soil, then
casts it away from the road.
Until now, DOT has had to clean
ditches with a backhoe, then haul
away the excess soil. The ditcher's
benefit is that nothing is left behind.
"It's much faster, and you don't have
to haul anything away," Cook said.
As an example, Thomas estimated
that the ditcher can open a ditch in 45
minutes that would take a backhoe
over a day to clean.
He said the machine can be used on
ditches that are less than five feet
deep and have no more than a
16-degree slope. Cook added that the
>sidents Pitc
'Overnor's R
Roach, Shallotte, $800.
And, Douglas Scott, Shallotte, $500;
Robert Sellers, Shallotte, $250;
Wallace Smith, Supply, $250; Walter
G. Smith, Supply, $1,000; Davey L.
Stanley, Shallotte, $250; Wyarian
Taylor, Shallotte, $250; R.S. Ward,
Shallotte S19A- Donald V Warren
Shallotte, $250; R.D. White III!
Shallotte, $500; W.J. Wiggs, Yaupon
Beach, $250; John Williams,
Shallotte, $15; Tommy Bradsher,
Supply, $250; W.P. Rabon, Southport,
$1,000; Patrick Howe, Southport,
$500.
JORDAN
John T. Rose, Sunset Beach, $500;
Joey Shreve, Shallotte, $200; Mike
Easley, Southport, $250; Larry J.
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Harrelson
Complete Farm & Gan
Hwy. 17 S., Shallotte
7546373
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STAFF PHOTO BY RAHN AOAMS
w Dondi ditching machine on Old
Too! I
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ditcher will be used mainly on roads H
adjacent to woodlands and unplanted
fields, since it spreads soil away I
from the road.
"Those are things we'll have to
work around," Thomas said. "It's '
not going to be an 'every ditch in the
county' type thing."
For the first couple of months that
the local DOT has the ditcher,
maintenance personnel are being
trained to use it, Thomas said. The
training initially is being done on dirt
roads where traffic is light.
When the ditcher is in full use, DOT
will begin planned ditch
maintenance. "We plan for this
machine to go in and do whole sections
of road at one time," Thomas
said.
Cook noted that DOT crews currently
are six to eight months behind
on ditching requests in Brunswick
County. While most of those jobs will
be handled with backhoes, as usual,
Thomas said use of the ditcher should
prevent future backlogs of spot
maintenance calls.
-U T~
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laces
Shreve, Shallotte, $200; Paul D. Dennis,
Shallotte, $1,000; Kemp M.
Causey, Ocean Isle Beach, $250; E.J.
Prevatte, Southport, $169; Linda <
Phillips, Southport, $200; B.S. Ward,
Shallotte, $250; Scot Benton,
Shallotte, $250; Dean A. Walters,
Ocean Isle Beach, $250; G.V. Barbee,
Long Beach, $1,000; Scott W. Lander,
Shallotte, $250; Bill English, Sunset
Beach, $250; Edward M. Gore,
Sunset Beach, $250; John W.
Williams, Ocean Isle Beach, $250;
Don Warren, Shallotte, $250; Carvin
Robinson, Supply, $275; Alan Holden,
Holden Beach, $250; Floyd Kirby Jr.,
Shallotte, $1,000; Albert H. Parker
Sr., Supply, $2,128; and Nancy W.
Barbee, Ocean Isle Beach, $250.
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