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Mch. 4922^ THURW9 KING? MOUNTAIN MIRROR fj I# 0 I# VOL. 90, NO. 17 THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1979 15c H€RMD Under 201 Wastewater Plan i 0 City Considering New Waste Plant ■» T TALKINO ABOUT tOl—City Enfineer Alvin Morets points out the nltemntlvea open to the city In developInK Ite 901 wastewater treatment faoUUleB, ae reoom- menOed by W.K. fMcheen and Oo. to Cmnmlssloners Photo by Tom McIntyre Humes Houston and James ChUders during Monday’s board meetinK. Kings Mountain Is part of the Oaston Ml Complex study. By TOM McIntyre Editor, Mirror-Herald The city commissioners voted Monday night to send a letter of Intent to the Oaston 201 Complex lead agency that Kings Mountain will consider constructing a new l.S million gallon per day waste treatment plant. Kings Mountain and perimeter Is Included In the Oaston County 201 plan, which Is a federaUy legislated program to develop waste treatment facilities that will serve current and projected needs for the next 20 years. Ralph Johnson and Thurman Horne, representatives of W.K. Dickson, the city’s consultant engineering firm, gave the board an igHlate on the local 201 study and made recommendations on plans to follow. Horne said It has been found that economically feasible for Kings Mountain to be Included In the overall planning for construction of waste treatment facilities In the Gaston 201 complex. It would be better for the city to remain alone In development a system. Home said. Several altema'tlves have been studied by Dickson, according to Home and the most cost effective for the city would be to upgrade the Pilot Creek Waste Treatment facility and the Season Creek pump station and to construct parallel Interceptor lines. Another suggestion was to upgrade the McGill Plant and to divert Clevemont, K-MUls and any future Industry waste to the Pilot Creek plant. Home said the two alternatives the engineering firm would recommend strongly Is abandoning the McOUl Plant and building a new facility at the Juncture of McGill and Crowders Creeks along with In terceptor lines, nils, according to Home, would make the area where the McGill Plant la located more deslreable as a development property In the future. Included In that recommendation Is plans to construct either a 800,000 gallon per day or a 1.6 million gallon per day facility. Commissioner James Dickey commented that “to consider a 600,000 gallon per day plant would mean by the time we got the hole dug, we would be wrong. It wouldn’t help.’’ Johnson commented that Dickson recommends the city alert Gaston County It Is considering a new 1.8 million gallon plant, but added that the EPA guidelines are so stringent In planning for 201 "that the plan will probably come back disapproved. They will probably tell us that based on population and use In the eastern area of the city we should only build the half-million gallon faculty.’’ Johnson said he could not say this would happen for sure, but It was an educated guess based on the stringency of the guidelines thus far In the planning study. The new site - McGUl and Crowders Creeks juncture 8 la ap proximately two "stream mUes” from the present McGUl plant. Johnson told the board that should they elect to retain the McGUl Plant In Its present site. It would have to be upgraded to primary treatment status. The city’s letter of Intent to con struct a new 1.6 mlUlon gaUon per day faculty wUl be sent to Gaston County and wlU be Included In the overall complex plan. The Kings Mountain portion of the Gaston 201 plsui wlU also Include the treatment of Industrial and domestic wastewater from the Town of Grover. Johnson said this would not affect the plan for the east side of the community because the Grover waste would be pumped to the PUot Creek plant, on the west side of the city. TTie 201 Wastewater ’Treatment Plan came Into effect In 1972 under federal legislation. 1710 act also calls for the federal government to fund 78 percent of the cost of planning and construction of new faculties. ^orld Day Of Prayer Rezonmg k Approved Despite Protests Observance Scheduled Kings Mountain area citizens wUl observe World Day of Prayer Friday two services of scripture, prayer %nd song at Central United Methodist Church. Downtown churches are spon soring the services, both of which wUl run 80 minutes, at 12 noon and at 6 p.m. M Leading the services wUl be Rev. Bob Boggan, pastor of Central lAilted. Methodist Church; Mrs. Connie Moss, Youth Director at Central Church; Rev. Gary Biyant, pastor of First Presbyterian Church; Miss Pam Daniel, assistant pastor of First Presbyterian Church; Rsv. Harwood T. Smith, pastor of St. Matthew’s Lutheran Chiu-ch, and Rev. Gerald Weeks, pastor of Resurrection Lutheran Church. “We Invite the community to come during the noon hour on Friday shortly after they leave work at 6 p.m. for these special services of prayer and scripture reading", said Rev. Mr. Boggan. To Distribute Funds KM Bicentennial Group Is Dissolved By TOM McIntyre Editor, Mirror-Herald "We are not opposed to the Mirror- Herald locating on Canterbury Road, but....’’ That was the tenure of opposition by residents of Canterbury Rd. at Monday nl^t’s pubUc hearing on a rezonlng request from The Herald Publlidilng House. Following the public hearing the commissioners voted unanimously to grant the request. A delegation of citizens from Canterbury Rd., who are In the Kings Mountain one-mlle zoning perimeter, but are actually Gaston County residents, attendlnd the hearing to protest the publishing firm’s rezonlng request from R-8 to LI In order to construct a centralised news, business and publishing faculty. Alan Stout, who la director of the Schiele Museum of Natural History In Gastonia and a Canterbury Rd. resident, served as spokesman for Uie group. He stated the residents were not In opposition to the newspaper relocating, but were very much opposed to what "this piece of spot zoning could lead tolnln- dustrisLllzatlon.’’ Stout said "A steering committee" from the residents had met on Feb. 7 and that the general concensus of that meeting was they were not dlametrlcaUy opposed to the Herald, but were opposed to the trend of spot zoning. "We’re concerned that rezonlng the entrance to Canterbury Road Is the first step toward an eastward advancement of business and In dustry,” Stout said. He cited the city’s Installation of electrical lines down Canterbury, the rezonlng for an Industrial park at Canterbury and 1-86, the pockets of zoning aUowlng Ught and heavy Industry aU around the eastern section of the city and the planned by-pass north of the city as the reasons for the concern. “If the city’s spot zoning plans also Include building a waste treatment plant In our area. It would be hazardous to our deep wells,” Stout said. ‘ ‘There Is also a danger of the Crowders Mountain State Park losing development funding In the future If IndustrlallzaUon of the primary entrance road to the park (Canterbuiy) Is developed." Stout also said the city’s rezonlng of the easteni area, as far Directors of Kings Mountain « lcentennlal Commission voted iiesday to dissolve the corporation and to distribute remaining funds of $8900 In the community. Upon motion of J.C. Bridges, seconded by Charles Hamilton, the board agreed to give $1900 to KM « latrict Schools for landscaping of e Junior and Senior High Schools, 11,000 to the City of Kings Mountain for establishing a historical memorial plaque to heroes at the Battle of Kings Mountain, and remaining funds to Jacob S. Mauney lH^emorial Library for reference and American hlstoiy books. ’The plaque will be enacribed sq)proprlately and erected on the site of the new Government Services Facilities building on B. Gold St. ^ Chairman Howard Jackson, who presided, expressed appreciation to the KM Schools System for "In valuable assistance" In staging the successful Bicentennial Celebration In the city of 1876 and to all members of the Commission which Included Mayor John Moss, Co-chairman Pat Plonk, Bob Bradley, Virginia Hlnnant, J.C. Bridges, Charles Hamilton, Emma Blalock, Corky FTilton, Marvin Teer and Sarah Faunce. In a relation action, the com mission voted to return to the Preston Goforth descendants their gift of $200, a donation to a Goforth restoraUon project which did not materialize during the service of the committee which had been formed tor several years and funcUened to plan oonduct ths Bteantannlal olMarvanee. Mayor Moss, who accepted the gift tor the city on behalf of the city commission, said that he would appoint a committee of citizens to purchase and erect the memorial plaque and a committee to overview "what will go In the 80,000 square foot masonry and steel City Hall to be constructed on a block of E. Gold, Lake and Spruce Sts. In downtown Kings Mountain." . .MAKING A POINT—Alan Stout, spokeamaa for the Canterbury Rd. Steering Oommlttee, nukes hto point In the group’s oppositloa to reaoning a six-acre tract at the corner of E. King St. and Canterbury Rd. at Monday’s Photo by Tom McIntyre city board meeting. The site Is to be the future home of The Mlrror-HeraM. The delegation made Its opposition known during a resonlng public hearing. as he could determine, was In op position to the state’s overall {dannlng. He suggested a committee of the local government, the Canterbury Rd. residents steering committee and a committee from Gaston County get together to look at the overall plans for development of the area In question. "We would like to be made aware of your Intent tor use of this property, so alternate solutions that will be mutually agreeable to all concerned can be found." Harry Hurd, another Canterbury Rd. resident and member of the citizens steering committee, said, "I have seen such things balloon before In Indiana and lots of places. It causes controversy and I would think the local government would like to avoid controversy. "1 think wo ought to go slowly on this, consider all the angles," he continued. “Mr. Stout has spoken clearly on what the consequences can be. I realize we have to consider business, but It would behoove us to all sit down and go over this to work out solutions beneficial to alt" Mayor John Moss told Stout that "the chair does not respond during a public hearing. TTiese hearing are held solely to allow proponents and opponents of a proposed action and opportunity to express their (pinions." David Hunscher, Gaston County numager, and Gene Carson, a Gaston County commissioner, also attended Monday’s public hearing, but did not make any comment during the proceedings. James Boyce Garland of Gastonia, attorney tor 77)6 Herald Publishing House and General Publishing Co., spoke briefly on the company’s request. He said "’This property la generally Isolated from both residential or industry areas. Down Canterbury Rd. the closest residence, a trailer. Is six-tenths of a mile. The nearest Industry Is the Sadie Mill. The only thing on the property now are some advertising signs. Excluding the right of way the rite of the proposed publishing firm Is approximately five and a half acres.”
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