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Jeff Davis photo A breath of spring . . .finally. . . Even though the cooler temperatures of early spring are still around, one can't stop gazing at buds on trees and the blooms of the buttercups. The flowers are blooming and the hum of lawnmowers fill the air on the weekends, and winter is just a distant piece of memory in our minds. Siler City considers landfill rules By Randall Rigsbee The Chatham County Solid Waste Advisory Committee, which has been studying the county’s long-term waste disposal options, has recommended the county build its own landfill for Chatham use only. Members of the advisory committee presented their recommendations to the Chatham County Board of Commissioners on Monday. “It’s either, are you going to have a landfill in your backyard or in somebody else’s backyard,” said John McSween, chairman of the Solid Waste Advisory Committee. Chatham County currently trucks its solid waste to Sampson County; the advisory committee, at the request of commissioners, has been studying long-term waste solutions. The committee considered three options: a privately-owned regional landfill in the county; a county-owned regional landfill; and the committee’s recommendation of a county-owned landfill for Chatham’s exclusive use. The recommended option, McSween said, “is certainly the most socially acceptable and will probably have the smallest environmental impact.” Other advantages of a county-only landfill are that it gives Chatham total control over the facility and the type of waste it accepts; the option has more public support than other options; it is less difficult to implement than a regional landfill.
Pittsboro grapples with wastewater By Cara Rotondaro Commissioners and the staff of the town of Pittsboro are branching out in a variety of ways in the search to increase the town’s wastewater capacity. The lack of capacity has forced the halt of further development within the town for the time being. On March 8, the board approved a moratorium on all major subdivisions. Pittsboro will not be accepting applications for subdivisions for one year. But in addition, the town must look for ways to increase the wastewater capacity, said Town Manager David Hughes in an interview Monday. Pittsboro, technically, is not yet out of capacity, he said. The state’s allotment for Pittsboro’s wastewater capacity is 750,000 gallons. Last year’s tributary flow (the amount used by current developments) was 451,000.
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Homestead approved By Randall Rigsbee Despite much public opposition to The Homestead primarily over concerns the 454-home development could harm the quality of Jordan Lake’s drinking water, the Chatham County Board of Commissioners on Monday gave its approval to the project. Commissioners voted 4-1 to grant Jordan Lake LLC a conditional use permit to build The Homestead, a gated community, on 577 acres off Big Woods Road. Commissioners Tommy Emerson, Margaret Pollard, Carl Outz and Bunkey Morgan voted in favor of the project. Only commissioner Bob Atwater voted to deny the request. The board’s action changes the zoning of the 577-acre tract from RA-5, which allowed an average of one home per five acres, to RA-40, enabling the developer to build a much higher-density project. The board’s decision comes after the county Planning Board reviewed the developer’s plans over the past three months. The Planning Board earlier this month voted 7-3 to deny the project. “We spent a lot of time on the Homestead application,” said Planning Board chairman George Lucier. “We discussed several issues, most notably wastewater and storm water, particularly as they might impact water quality of Jordan Lake.”
Mystery object falls from above By Milburn Gibbs Branson Spivey had a very strange visitor drop in on him Friday around noon. The Siler City man was walking in his back yard when he spied a shiny object sticking up in the moss. It had made about a two-inch indention when it apparently fell from the sky. The blackish object was about two inches across, maybe four inches long and perhaps two inches at its greatest diameter. It weighed 14 ounces. It looked for all the world like something from outside this world.
Jeff Davis photo Mystery rock in Chatham . . . Branson Spivey holds onto a
possible meteorite that fell in his backyard last week. Spivey noticed
the unknown object when walking across his yard on Siler City-Snow Camp
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