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Some residents of Calahash want a
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anything to do with it. Yet another
group insists that water lines be in
cluded with the proposed system.
Residents of the waterfront town,
which now relies on septic tanks for
sewage disposal except in one resi
dential area, met last Thursday night
with engineers working on a sewer
study for the town. They asked
questions and listened, learning how
sewer service would most likely af
fect their wallets.
Town commissioners received a
mixed message from the varied
opinions voiced.
"Those hearings provided a wide
range of divergent opinions on the
validity of expanding the sewer sys
tem into adjoining communities,"
said Commissioner Jon Sanborn in a
telephone interview Monday. "There
seemed to be no consensus as to a
firm direction for us to take."
A series of five consecutive pub
lic hearings was conducted at the
fire station, allowing residents of 10
unscwcrcd areas in Calabash to
voice opinions and leam more about
receiving sewer service.
The forums were open to property
owners in Acreage Estates, Carolina
Shores North, Calabash Acres,
Calabasn Acres East, Bay Fuini,
Carlyle Acres, Hidden Valley, Ocean
Forest, Carolina Cove and Hunter's
Trace.
Neighborhoods were grouped to
gether in four 30-minute hearing
blocks and one 15-minutc segment,
during which approximately 20 to
30 people from each group showed
up to listen and leam.
Engineers Jim Billups and Joe
Tombra of Powell Associates of
North Myrtle Beach, S.C., requested
the public hearings at rcccnt meet
ings of the town board.
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helpful in their study, but is also re
quired in order for the town to quali
fy for some governmental loans,
they said.
A study has been conducted with
in the past year to determine the
need for sewer service in Calabash,
and the possible options for treat
ment and collection facilities.
One of the major steps in the pro
cess, Billups and Tombro said, is to
know if Calabash residents even de
sire such a change.
"That's why we're here tonight,"
Billups said to each group, "to learn
how you feel about this and to an
swer your questions."
Gary Fassl of Buffalo, N.Y.. who
owns a lot in Carolina Shores North,
said Thursday he had considered
paying S3,(XX) to install an alterna
tive system on his property, which
according to environmental reports
won't perk.
"I'm ready to hold out now," he
told the engineers after learning of
the money he would save by wailing
for sewer system installation.
He said the value of his land is
very low bccausc he can't build on it
due to inability to put in a service
able scptic tank.
Biiiups suppoiicd Fassl's siaic
mcnt, adding that many septic tanks
are failing, especially in the restau
rant area, and many new landowners
arc being prevented by state regula
tions from building houses on their
land.
"We've got condemned land
now," Fassl said of the area sur
rounding the Carolina Shores North
condominiums.
A majority of the Carolina Shores
North residents present agreed with
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ENGINEER JIM BILLUPS talks to residents of unsewered subdi
visions in Calabash Thursday night in a series of public hearings.
Residents voiced a variety of opinions regarding the proposed in
stallation of a sewer system in their area.
Fassl, and showed support for a mu
nicipal sewer system.
Bui icsiucuus of Aucagc Estates
in Carolina Shores told a different
story.
Fred and Hazel Janzcn, residents
for the past eight years, said they'd
never had a problem with their sep
tic tank, and they didn't feel a need
to replace it.
Mrs. Janzen said she didn't know
how other residents of Acreage
Estates feel about adding sewer ser
vice. but spoke for the group present
that evening.
"Those that arc here are totally
against it," she told the engineers.
CumuiisMOfici George Anderson
said he was surprised at the reaction.
"That response puzzled me," he
said between hearings. "You'd think
they'd want sewers."
Commissioner Sanborn, liaison
between the engineers and the town
board, said that some residents sup
port having sewer service in their
neighborhood, but want county wa
ter as part of the deal.
To open discussion at the hearing,
the engineers listed examples ol
how residents would be billed
should sewers be approved for the
com??* unity.
Billups said residents of sewered
areas would be affcclcd by ihrce dif
ferent chargcs regarding sewer sys
tem implementation.
An impact fee, which would
"very likely" be charged to all resi
dents regardless of their desire to ac
cept service, covers the cost of
building or purchasing lacilities, he
explained.
A one time Uip-on fee, charged
only to those who choose to accept
sewer service, pays for conncction
to the system.
Monthly charges pay oil the sys
tem debt, pay regular maintenance
costs for the facilities and pay lor
the use of county water, he said.
As an example. Billups demon
strated that residents of Little River.
S.C.. pay a SI ,4(X) impact fee. S700
tap-on lee and S27.62 in monthly
service charges.
Residents of Shallotte, he contin
ued, pay a S1,6(X) impact lee, S2.575
tap-on fee and S27.79 in monthly
service.
Under the current Carolina Blythc
Utilities system serving 850 resi
dents of the Carolina Shores subdi
vision in Calabash, customers pay a
SI, 822 impact fee, S9(X) tap-on lee
and a monthly bill of $38.10, Billups
said.
Carolina Blythc Utilities is also
considering a 68 percent rate in
crease soon, he told the audience.
Two scenarios were developed by
Billups and Tombro for the pro
posed Calabash system, who esti
mated community populations in
REUs (Residential Equivalent
Units).
In an area of 1,300 REUs, involv
ing the downuiwn commercial area
and adjacent residential areas, con
nection would cost S 1,6 12 for the
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and S50.14 for monthly service
In an area of 1,K(X) REUs, adding
the presently non-sewered areas,
connection would cost SI, 167 for
the impact fee, S9<X) for tap on and
S42.67 for monthly service.
Billups pointed out to participants
in each hearing that the individual
cost would go down depending on
availability of grant funding to assist
the project and the number of cus
tomers willing to connect to the sys
tem.
He also noted that current figures
arc not final.
Commissioner Sanbom said he
believes the next step is for the town
board to meet with the engineers to
decide what sort of message was re
ceived from residents without sewer
service, and then complete the study.
Myrick Joins Local
GOP For Reception
Former Charlotte mayor Sue My
rick, a Republican candidate for the
U.S. Senate, will join local Re
publican candidates at a mcct-the
votcrs reception at the Brunswick
County GOP Headquarters Satur
day, Feb. 29, from 1 1 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The headquarters building is lo
cated in U.S. 17 one mile north of
Supply. Finger foods will be served.
All Brunswick County voters are
invited, according to a GOP news
release.
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Hwy. 17 S., Shallotte
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5th District:
Center Needs Positive Help
BY TKRRY POPE
Leland's Fifth District Civic As
sociation says it needs some positive
volunteer action to help renovate the
old Lcland School as a community
building.
The association has come under
criticism since it received a lease on
the building from Brunswick County
Commissioners in 1985. Some resi
dents say seven years is a long
enough wait for the building to be re
paired and arc asking that the group
return the building to the county.
"The only thing we ask of the
people is to let us do our work," said
Jimmy Oldham, one of five 5th
District board members. Others are
C.O. "Hayseed" Thomas, Tommy
Morgan, Houston Field and Cla
rence Brown.
Oldham said 5th District mem
bers have actively sought donations
from the community to repair the
building, but those funds have been
slow in corning in. A struggling
economy also hasn't helped.
'That building is going to be re
modeled lor the community," said
Thomas. "We've been trying for a
number of years. But we've had
enough negative reaction. What we
need is for the people to put some of
their positive energy to use."
5th District members say they
hope residents will volunteer to
spend some Saturdays at the center
to paint and to help make other re
pairs. The outside and roof has been
repaired through funds and labor
donated by the town of Belville and
the county.
"We've got a lot of stuff to do,"
" We've got a lot of stuff to do."
? C.O. "Hayseed" Thomas
5th District Group
said Thomas.
The question over control of the
building surfaced at the Lcland
Town Council meeting Feb. 13.
Resident Rosemary Long asked the
council it it had ' decided that the
5th District is not doing the job it
should" in renovating the building.
She called for a resolution support
ing county control of the building.
The Civic Center lies outside the
Lcland town limits at the Old Leland
School park. It is actually a wing of
the former I. eland School that was
not demolished when a new Leland
Middle School was built.
Oldham said the 5th District
board will now apply for a state
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which needs inside work, wiring and
a septic tank.
"Wc haven't gotten everything fi
nalized," said Oldham, but board
members will meet with Brunswick
County authorities Monday, March
2, to complete the grant application.
The overall goal is to lease space
for Head Start classes during the day
to Four-County Community Ser
vices of Laurinburg and to schedule
the building at night to the commu
nity ? for weddings, classes and civ
ic meetings.
"The whole area will have access
to the building," said Oldham.
Four-County had indicated it
would help seek funding lo repair
the building in exchange for tree use
of classrooms. But Oldham said lasi
week that scenario will not legally
work. The 5ih District group must
obtain me grant and make the re
pairs before an agreement can lie
signed with Four-County.
Lcland Mayor S.L. Doty said he
thinks the 5th District's plan to lease
space to Head Start would benefit
ihc community.
"Sure, it's a good thing," said
Doty. "We're pushing for that."
Presently, Leland area Head Start
students arc bused to a ccnter in the
Armour community in neighboring
Columbus County. Head Start is a
federally-funded child development
program aimed at helping break the
cycle of poverty by providing pre
school children of low-income fami
lies with a comprehensive program
to meet their emotional, social,
health, nutritional and psychological
needs.
Oldham said the center has come
a long way from when the county
originally budgeted S2.000 to tear it
Blood Pressure Seminar
Takes AIM At Black Men
Black males, shown by statistical
data to be prone to high blood pres
sure, arc the target of a seminar and
blood pressure screening to be held
this Saturday, Feb. 29, in Bolivia.
Sponsored by the Brunswick
County Health Department and AIM
(Ambassadors Interested in Man
kind), the screening is scheduled for
6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Public As
sembly Building at the Government
Center.
Moe Stanley, a member of the tar
get population and the Brunswick
County Board of Health, has helped
form AIM to work with the depart
ment's Adult Health Section in
sponsoring this seminar, said Nancy
Leggett, public health nursing super
visor with the health department.
Black males, said Ms. Leggett,
will be taught the many causes and
treatments of hypertension, known
as high blood pressure, and will be
offered a free blood pressure screen
ing as well.
AIM is currently made up of 12 to
15 concerned black males from all
over Brunswick County who are ac
tively recruiting participants for the
seminar, she said.
Persons with questions can call
the health department Adult Health
Section at 253-4381 in Bolivia, 763
1312 in Leland and 457-5281 in
Southport.
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