STAFF PtOTO BY BOB MORNE
U.S. 17 Construction Progresses
Heavy machinery piles up burning trees and other growth cut to allow the widening of U.S. 17 between Bolivia and Winnabow. The
work is part of the project that will eventually result in U.S. 17 being four lanes from Wilmington to the South Carolina line.
Mayors Say Beaches Are Recovering From Hugo
BY DOl'G RL'TTKR
Brunswick County bcach town ofTicials say
their bcachcs arc looking good. less than a year
after Hurricane Hugo's storm surge washed out a
lot of dunes that had been protecting valuable is
land property.
Although the bcachcs seem to be on their
way to recovery. South Brunswick Islands may
ors admit that it will be a while before the dunes
are back to the condition they were in before
Hugo made landfall Sept. 22. 1989.
"Our dune system was in excellent shape be
fore Hugo," said Ocean Isle Beach Mayor Betty
Williamson. "1 would say we're in very good
shape now."
Getting the beaches back together wasn't
che.p. Two of the three beach towns in the South
Brunswick Islands brought in bulldozers to
reinforce Rattened dunes, and all three communi
ties purchased sand fence and beach grass to help
stabilize the bcrms.
The town of Holden Beach spent more than
S3(X),(KX) on its beach following Hugo. That in
cluded the cost of bulldozing sand dunes almost
the entire length of the eight-mi le-long island.
Mayor John Tandy estimated dial the town
lost about 25 percent of what it spent on dune re
construction shortly after the project was com
pleted, as the new berm eroded and sand fence
"Our dune system was in
excellent shape before Hugo.
I would say we're in very
good shape now."
Ocean Isle Beach Mayor Betty
Williamson
collapsed. "The ocean has come in a little hit," he
said.
But Tandy said the beach and man-made
dunes now appear to be holding up. "1 think
we're in good shape at this siage," the mayor
said. "It still needs a lot more stabilizing."
Ocean Isle Beach had truckloads of sand
hauled in and dumped on the beach to reinforce
damaged dunes. The town later put up sand fence
and planted beach grass to help stabilize the
dunes and help thorn grow.
Mayor Williamson said she's very pleased
with the way the beach has recovered. She said
tourists who have visited the beach this summer
have been pleasantly surprised.
The sand fence has worked so well, in fact,
that the dune has grown over it in some areas,
Mrs. Williamson said. And the beach grass is do
ing well, thanks in part to a lot of rain in August.
"All of that stabilization is really going to
help in case we ever have another hurricane,"
Mrs. Williamson said.
Primarily because of oceanlront setbacks.
Sunset Beach avoided the property damage that
the other local beaches experienced as a result of
Hugo. Bui the southernmost beach in the suite
still lost some of its dunes.
The town didn't bulldoze sand dunes after the
storm iikc Holdcn Beach and Ocean isic Beach,
but workers did put u,; suiul fence and plant
beach grass to help the strand recover.
"We've come a long way," Mayor Mason
Barber said last week. "We're just extremely well
pleased with the amount of sand that's started
coming in and the way it's building back."'
Although town officials are pleased with the
way the beaches have recovered, they agree it
will be years before the dunes are back in the
shape they were in before Hurricane Hugo.
Tandy said Holden Beach needs at least two
years without storms lor the man-made, dunes to
become stabili/cd. "We couldn't stand any more
giant storms. 1 could tell you that," Tandy said.
Mrs. Williamson said she hopes the beach
and dunes will be back to their pre-Hugo form
before the next hurricane hits. "This is something
Mother Nature has to do, anil the natural process
lakes time. We're keeping our fingers crossed."
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property was not restricted. The
area was used by the general public
for vehicular and pedestrian access
to the beach and for picnicking and
other activities.
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Industries Inc. (Frances and David
R. Kanoy Jr.), which at that time
owned the adjacent Sunset Beach
Fishing Pier, against M.C. Gore and
Sunset Beach and Twin Lakes Inc.
On the grounds that Sunset
Boulevard to the Ocean was a dedi
cated and accepted road, the Ka
noys sought and obtained a tempo
rary restraining order to prevent
Gore from building on "Lot I -A."
The suit was settled in late fall of
1970, with the Kanoys signing an
agreement waiving and quitclaim
ing to the Gores any interest they
might have had in the lot. At about
the same time, at a Nov. 2, 1970,
meeting, the Sunset Beach Town
Council purported to formally reject
and not accept the dedication of the
street. However no declaration ol
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"That is your right-of-way access to the
ocean in perpetuity as far as we can
determine."
?James B. Maxwell
SBTPA attorney
withdrawal of dedication was filed. A similar request was made
In May 1984, alter a Sunset slightly more than a year later by
Beach councilman and developer, the Sunset Beach Taxpayers Asso
Ed Ciore, offered to give the town ciation before it joined in filing the
an oceanlront tract on the west end suit. In the July 1985 letter to
of the beach for public parking. Mayor James Gordon, SBTPA offi
thcn-Mayor Frances Kanoy re- cers John G. McCarthy and Minnie
ceived a letter from businessman A1 K. Hunt suggested use of the lot as
Odom suggesting the town develop "a logical solution" to the parking
the property cast of the fishing pier and beach access problems being
(Lot 1 - A) as a public parking/access experienced by the town.
area.
Odom, who now serves on the "It is our opinion that litis is pub
town council, wrote, "It is the opin- lie bcach property that ought to now
ion of many people who have inves- be utilized by the Town for the pub
tigated the rightful ownership of lie purposes and benefits to which it
this property tiiat it is owned by the was originally intended," they
town." wrote.
Next Few Days Slightly Cooler
Residents of the South Bruns- three-quarters inch of rainfall.
wick Islands area should notice a For the period Aug. 28 through
slight cooling over the next few Sept. 3, Canady recorded a maxi
days, but can still expeel plenty of mum high of 96 degrees on Aug.
warm days ahead. 28th and a minimum low of 69 de
Shallotte Point meteorologist grecs on Sept. 1.
Jackson Canady said the outlook A daily average high of 91 de
calls for normal temperatures and grecs and a daily average low 71
rainfall for this transitional time of degrees resulted in a daily average
the year. temperature of 81 degrees, which
He anticipates temperatures that Canady said is about two degrees
average from the upper 60s at night above average.
into the upper 80s during the day- He measured .43 inch of rain at
time. The area can expect about his home near Shallotte Point.
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CP&L laicr determined thai the
actual exposure to workers was with
in the limit allowed by the NRC.
Three instrumentation and con
trol technicians had entered a con
tamination control lent in the reac
tor building to complete modifica
tions to the system. During calibra
tion of a probe, an activated, newly
installed portable detector and cable
were withdrawn too far out of the
core, into the area in which the
three were working.
Clark said the base civil penalty
lor this type of violation is S.M).(XX).
It was increased in this case, be
cause the company had received
prior notice about similar events as
sociated with work on similar sys
tems at other plants.
CP&L said the fine was less than
it otherwise would have been be
cause. according to the NKC, the
utility "promptly notified the NRC
resident inspector and took prompt
and extensive corrective actions."
CP&L has 30 days from receipt
of notification to either pay the civil
penalty or to protest it in whole or
in pari. CP&L announced last
Friday that it docs not intend to con
test the civil penalty.
As of Friday, the NRC had not
announced whether it proposes to
cite CP&L for any violations fol
lowing an Aug. 19 automatic shut
down of one unit of the plant. The
"scram" occurred when technicians
failed to follow established routines
for conducting a monthly mainte
nance test. The regulatory agency is
reviewing an investigative team's
report on the incident.
Superintendent Decision Postponed
(ton tinned From Page 1 - A >
He conicndcd thm ihe new board
might he less divided, a prospect
Slacked questioned.
While Baxlcy recommended a
two-year term as a means of "dam
age control," Slockett instead pro
posed a four-year term retroactive
to June 30, with no compensation
for the period from June 30 uniil
"she?or he" begins work. F.arlicr
he had referred to the next superin
tendent as "she".
"I feel we arc fully ready to make
a decision," Slocketl said, his com
ments similar to those of Mrs.
Worth antl Ms. Baxter. "Two (final
ists) we know extremely well and
we've visited the home territories of
the other two. We've discussed their
qualifications and arc prepared to
clo more tonight."
However, board attorney Glen
Peterson said that while in execu
tive session the board reviewed the
"merits and demerits" of the four fi
nalists in detail, then decided to talk
to the applicants a second lime.
In open session speakers W. A.
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