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BCC PHOTO BY ANNE MAWE BELLA UV
BCC Hooks Donation
The South Brunswick Islands King Mackerel Tournament recently
donated $1,000 to the Brunswick Community College Foundation.
Pictured, from left, are BCC President W. Michael Reaves, tourna
ment co-founder Wayne Long, South Brunswick Islands Chamber
of Commerce Executive Vice President Susanne Sartelle and 1991
tournament chairman Don Warren. More than 120 boats partici
pated in the 1990 fishing tournament. This year's event is sched
uled luibor Day weekend. For more information, call the chamber
of commerce, 754-6644.
State DOT Wants Permit
To Fill Local Wetlands
BY DOUG RUTTER
The N.C. Department of Trans
portation is seeking a federal permit
to dump dirt in wetlands south of
Shallotte as part of the ongoing pro
ject to widen U.S. 17.
Plans submitted with the state's
permit application show that about
12 acres of wetlands at 10 sites bor
dering the highway would be affect
ed by the construction, according to
a public notice from the Army
Corps of Engineers.
The 12.01 acres includes an esti
mated 5.5 acres of pocosin wet
lands, 5.41 acres of bottomland
hardwood wetlands and one acre of
pond habitat. All of the wetlands arc
located in either the Shallotte of
Calabash river basins.
The DOT wants the permit so
work can continue on the four-lan
ing of U.S. 17 between Shallotte
and the South Carolina slate line ? a
project expected to last several
more years.
Six of the lO sites where the state
proposes filling "Wetlands arc locat
ed beside the highway between
Thomasboro and the state line, ac
cording to a map accompanying the
public notice.
The four other sites are spread
out between Thomasboro and Shal
lotte. The biggest area that would be
filled is 5.5 acres of wetlands locat
ed south of Grissettown.
To make up for damage to local
wetlands, the state plans to restore
degraded wetlands outside Bruns
wick County and turn over several
acres of state-owned wetlands to the
federal government.
The DOT plans to restore degrad
ed wetlands in Sampson County to
account for the 5.5 acres of local
pocosin wetlands that would be
filled, according to the corps public
notice.
Wayne Wright, chief of the regu
latory branch at the corps district
office in Wilmington, said the state
also proposes to give 5.41 acres of
bottomland hardwood wetlands to
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Wright said the wetlands are lo
cated in the Company Swamp Miti
gation Bank, a state-owned "bank"
of wetlands in the Roanoke River
Basin in Northampton County.
DOT hasn't proposed any specific
measures to offset the one acre loss
of surface water wetlands. But state
officials expect construction pits that
would be left as ponds would cover
at least an acre, the corps notice stal
ed.
Based on available information,
the corps district engineer isn't
aware that the proposed activity
would affect threatened or endanger
ed species or their habitat, according
to the public notice.
'The benefits which reasonably
may be expected to accrue from the
proposal must be balanced against
its reasonably foreseeable detri
ments," the notice states. "The deci
sion whether to authorize a propos
al, and, if so, the conditions under
which it will be allowed to occur,
are therefore determined by the out
come of the general balancing pro
cess."
Besides the corps permit, the
state DOT needs permits, easements
or other forms of approval from
four other state agencies before
work can begin.
The Corps of Engineers will ac
cept written comments on the pro
posed work through May 11. They
can be mailed to Ernest Jahnke,
Wilmington District, Corps of En
gineers, RO. Box 1890, Wilming
ton. N.C. 28402-1890.
Calabash Proposes Additions
To Planning Board
BY DOUG RUTTER
Calabash officials will hold a
public hearing next week on a pro
posal to add two members to the
town's planning board ? a group
that has been at the center of contro
versy in recent months.
Commissioners propose adding
one regular planning and zoning
board member from each of the
town's two voting districts to even
out representation on the advisory
board.
If approved, the planning board
would be expanded to include five
voting members from District 2 and
two from District 1. Th*; five-to-two
split would be identical to the split
on the board of commissioners.
The planning board still would
have two voting members from the
extraterritorial area (ETA), which
covers land within a mile of town.
Each of the three areas also have
one alternate membei who can sit
on the planning board and vote
when a regular member is absent.
Commissioners will accept public
comments on the proposed change
in planning board membership Tues
day, April 23, at 7 p.m. in town hall.
The planning board, which was
revamped last January following the
merger of the old Town of Calabash
and the Carolina Shores golf com
munity, lost two of its regular mem
bers last week.
Warren "Bud" Knapp, chairman
for the past year, resigned effective
last Wednesday, and Hank Mattutat
announced his resignation at a town
commission meeting last Tuesday.
Both are residents of District 2.
Knapp said he resigned from the
board to give somebody else a
chance to serve and so he could de
vote more time to other interests.
Mattutat said he stepped down part
ly because of a lack of communica
tion between planning board mem
bers and commissioners.
Calabash Commissioners had
Meeting
Planned On
Highway Work
Area residents will have a chance
to tf 11 state transportation officials
which highway projects they want
built at an upcoming meeting in
Wilmington.
The public meeting is scheduled
Thursday, April 25, in room 212 of
the Social and Behavioral Science
Building at the University of North
Carolina at Wilmington. Speakers
can register at 1 p.m. and the meet
ing starts at 2 p.m.
The local meeting is one of 14
scheduled across the state between
now and May 23.
Public meetings are the initial
phase of the board's annual update
of its Transportation Improvement
Program (TIP). The TIP is the N.C.
Department of Transportation's
blueprint for highway construction
over the next seven years.
In addition to highway projects,
the TIP contains funding schedules
for aviation, public transportation,
rail and bicycle projects.
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Issue of Is April 25.
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"We were all learning I think for the
first year'
? Stu Thorn
Commissioner
scheduled a spccial meeting Wednes
day night to Fill the two vacancies.
The planning board has been the
topic of debate since February when
town officials learned that Bruns
wick County Commissioners had
never formally appointed the plan
ning board's three representatives
from the ETA.
County commissioners later ap
pointed three new members to the
board, but a few ETA residents
questioned the validity of recent
town actions, including the enforce
ment of zoning ordinances in the
ETA.
In a March 5 letter to the town,
N.C. Attorney General ruled that
the town's ordinances are valid and
enforceable even though some plan
ning board members weren't ap
pointed according to state law.
The planning board canceled its
two meetings in April and post
poned its election of officers until
the membership issue is worked out.
Announcing his resignation last
week, Mattutat said commissioners
haven't used information that plan
ning board members have provided
them. "It's very disturbing when the
commission acts unilaterally," he
said.
He said the planning board stud
ied sewer service for the waterfront
area and found 66,000 gallons per
day of treatment capacity was avail
able through Carolina Blythe Utili
ties, a private company that serves
part of Calabash.
Mattutat said a local developer
purchased the excess treatment ca
pacity. He said Calabash could have
gotten it if the town commission
hadn't let "the cat out of the hat"
and sent an "ill-wriuen letter" to the
company.
Mattutat said he learned through a
newspaper article that the town was
taking bids from engineering firms
to study the town's sewage collec
tion, treatment and disposal needs.
He said commissioners should
have talked with ihc planning board
about the proposed study. "We were
never consulted," he said. "Nobody
ever asked for our input"
Commissioner Stu Thorn, who
acts as a liaison between the town
commission and planning boa. d, ad
mitted thai communication between
the boards has been poor in the past.
Thorn and two other commis
sioners asked Mattutal to reconsider
his resignation from the planning
board. "We were all learning 1 think
for the first year," he said.
Commissioner Ray Card said the
two town boards need to make a
"religious effort" to communicate
better.
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