Town of Topsail Beach – Alternate Beach Project – Topsail Island Real Estate

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Town of Topsail Beach – Alternate Beach Project – Topsail Island Real Estate

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Spoil islands behind Topsail might yield more sand at a lesser cost for an interim beach project, according to the engineering firm GBA. In addition, sand from shoaled areas might be able to be used to maintain the project. (Image courtesy of Topsail Beach)

TOPSAIL VOICE
By Connie Pletl

Published: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 9:35 AM EDT

TOPSAIL BEACH – The beach town has taken a turn away from seeking sand at offshore borrow sites and set its sights on inland sand sources for its interim beach nourishment project.
Mayor Pro Tem Julian Bone and Commissioner Grier Fleischhauer said the offshore sites and proposal by Coastal Planning & Engineering are not completely off the table but it appears as if another sand source could be preferable.
The town has hired Gahagan & Bryant Associates to investigate the spoil islands and shoaled areas behind Topsail Island for the amount of compatible sand needed to do the interim project.
“In his report, Chris (Gibson, from GBA) said that there appears to be enough material in both sites,” said Bone.
Two spoil islands – one at the south end of the town near Topsail Creek and the other just north of Harvey’s Cut – have been identified by GBA as potential sand sources.
The town had previously contracted to get sand from offshore sites; however, Bone said by using the spoil islands the town would get more sand at a cheaper price.

“We need sand on the beach and we need it to be affordable,” said Bone.
The cost difference comes mostly from the mobilization of equipment. The logistics of offshore dredging is more costly than that of dredging inshore.
At a meeting in March, Gibson told the board the cost would be about $10,382,850 if it used the spoil islands compared to $13,007,750 using sand from the offshore borrow sites.
In addition to saving money, the town also wants to keep the interim project on schedule and have construction begin in the winter of 2010-11. Bone said Gibson has stated that the work could be done within that time period.
The town had previously formed a citizens’ roundtable committee to gauge interest in the interim beach nourishment project.
The results of the roundtable were that the citizens wanted the interim project, wanted it done in a cost effective manner, wanted to stay on schedule and wanted to obtain oceanfront easements as soon as possible.
Bone and Fleischhauer said that more information came from the citizens of the roundtable – the need for a maintenance program for the project.
The solution, according to Bone and Fleischhauer, is to dredge the shoaled areas of Topsail Creek and Banks Chanel on a regular basis after the interim beach nourishment project is complete and pump the sand onto the beach as maintenance for the project.
Shoaling in that area can be problematic for water navigation. The US Army Corps of Engineers currently dredges the channels to keep them navigable.
Bone and Fleischhauer also contend that by increasing the width of the inlet from 80-feet to 150-feet and the depth from 8-feet to 14-feet, enough sand can be retrieved to maintain the beach project.
Much of the sand in the backwaters migrated there from the beach, said Bone.
“We are not a sand starved beach, we have plenty of sand, we just need to relocate it,” he said.
Bone and Fleischhauer said there are also other benefits to using sand from the backwaters.
Fleischhauer said that by using the alternative plan instead of getting sand from offshore, it would better benefit the oceanfront property owners, the boating community and the sound side residents.
Bone agreed.
“This situation would help more than the oceanfront homeowners in Topsail Beach,” he said.
One of the main goals, according to Bone, is to keep costs down and eliminate assessing the oceanfront property owners to help pay for the project.
Bone said the town has also been keeping cutting costs in other areas and that Interim Town Manager Rickey Smith has been instrumental in the cost cutting while still increasing employee benefits.
Another concern, according to Fleischhauer, is ensuring that nothing is done to jeopardize the regular beach nourishment project, which is slated to be done in the future and financed partially with federal funding.
He said he traveled to Washington, DC with the Topsail Island Shoreline Protection Committee and talked to area representatives and lobbyists.
He said the federal beach nourishment project is the ultimate goal and that he feels positive about it.
“I have high hopes we will get the federal funding,” said Fleischhauer.
He said the town has one more year of engineering and studies. If the funding comes through, he said the project should be “shovel ready” by the end of fiscal year 2011.
According to Fleischhauer, talking to the representatives and using the lobbyists is vital to getting funding for the federal project.
At this time, Fleischhauer said the next step is to formulate a financial plan for alternative project and then have the town board of commissioners vote on it.
Before any beach project can be done, easements need to be obtained from the oceanfront property owners. At a special meeting earlier this month, the board of commissioners worked on creating an easement letter to be sent to property owners.
The town attorney took the suggestions and will present the document to the board at its town meeting tonight, April 14, at 7 p.m. at the town hall.

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Beachfront houses burn – Topsail Island Real Estate & Vacation Rentals-Topsail Island, NC

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Beachfront houses burn – Topsail Island Real Estate & Vacation Rentals-Topsail Island, NC

Two houses on Ocean View Drive in Ocean Sound Village were destroyed by fire early Saturday morning. (photo by Connie Pletl)

TOPSAIL VOICE
By Connie Pletl

Published: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:06 PM EDT

N. TOPSAIL BEACH – An early morning fire completely destroyed one beach house and consumed about 75-percent of another.
The fire started at about 1 a.m. on March 27 at an oceanfront home that was under construction on Ocean View Drive in the neighborhood of Ocean Sound Village.
By daybreak there was little more left of the home than some charred timbers.
The second house was a vacation rental that was up for sale. Just a shell of the home remains.
It apparently caught on fire due to the flames and heat from the first one.
“It was a hot fire,” said Assistant Fire Marshal George Moore. “The houses were only about 15 feet apart and the heat and wind caused the fire to spread.”
Moore said that it was breezy that morning, with winds of about 7-10 mph.
The fire burned so hot, that another house 50-60 feet to the south suffered some effects from the fire.
No one was injured as both homes were vacant at the time of the fire.
Moore said mutual aid was provided by area fire departments, including Turkey Creek Volunteer Fire Department, Town of Surf City Fire Department, Sneads Ferry Volunteer Fire Department, Surf City Volunteer Fire Department, Holly Ridge Volunteer Fire Department, Sloop Point Volunteer Fire Department and Verona Volunteer Fire Department.
Mayor Dan Tuman stated that he wished to express his gratitude to the fire departments that responded to the fire.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
“It is still under investigation,” said Moore.
Both homes were worth over a million dollars. The vacation rental that was up for sale was listed as being 3,844 square-feet, having seven bedrooms, six and-a-half bathrooms and for sale for $1,300,000.

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105 High Point Avenue, Surf City, NC – Topsail Island Real Estate & Vacation Rentals

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105 High Point Avenue, Surf City, NC – Topsail Island Real Estate & Vacation Rentals

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Property Details

105 High Point Avenue
Surf City , 28445

Pender County
Primary Area: Island Interior
Other Area: Island Interior
Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 2
Appx Heated Square Feet: 900
Heated Square Feet Range: 800-1000
Other Enclosed Sq Ft: 0
Subdivision: Surf City #1
Amenities: Other-See Remarks


Interior Features: Ceiling Fans,Water Heater-Electric,Remodeled,Cable TV
Exterior Features: Drive-Natural,Porch,Deck(s),Outside Shower
Construction: Other-See Remarks
Floors: Carpet,Tile,Vinyl
Roof: Flat
Foundation: Crawl Space
Heating System: Wall Unit(s)
Cooling System: Wall Unit(s)
Parking: Other-See Remarks
Appliances: Range, Oven, Refrigerator, W, D Connection
Lot Size: 50 x 100
Flood Zone: Yes
Federal Flood Zone: Yes
COBRA Zone: No
Remarks: old style cottage with charm and rental income! great location with very short distance to local restaurants, pier/grocery store, seconds (1/2 small block) to beach access – beach access seen from property- property comprised of two structures (2 bdrm, 1 bath & 1 bdrm/1bth), currently rented long term for immediate cash flow, seller is creative so bring all offers! assumable flood policy Topsail Island Real Estate, Surf City Real Estate, Topsail Island Vacation Rentals

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Topsail Island Real Estate & Vacation Rentals- Turtle Hopsital News – Topsail Beach, NC

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What’s Left(y)?
One Loggerhead, sans one front flipper who’s relocated to new tank every few months to keep up with his ever expanding carapace. That’s “Lefty” almost two years later.
Long story short, he literally blew in and stranded on a beach during a ferocious late summer storm. He was post-hatchling size, but still just over a few ounces. If he were a letter we could have slapped a first class stamp on him and shipped him back to the Sargasso Sea where he belonged at that stage of his life.
If we tried to release him from the beach he would have been fish food before he made it past the first sandbar. He stole our hearts and we decided to give him a chance.
Like most newly arrived hatchlings, “home” was a large blue basin. Every day we experienced the agony of defeat as we watched him reject every kind of food we waved in front of his face. Until the day one of our volunteers stumbled on a delicacy he just couldn’t refuse – coquina clams fresh out of the sand.
Of course he demanded them every day for weeks and that kept our clam digger really, really busy.  As he grew we all recognized that we had created the sea turtle equivalent of a “foodie.”  He would eat everything we dropped in, and then look at us like we were starving him.

As Lefty got bigger we gradually upgraded his tank size, encouraging more activity, exercise and watching to see if he could swim in more than one direction with only one flipper. In the wild, turtles his age would spend most of their time hanging out on the sargassum rafts, foraging almost at the surface and doing virtually no diving. They’re pretty camouflaged and relatively safe in that environment.
So when Lefty wasn’t eating he was spending most of the day floating around on the surface and sleeping with his flipper tucked over his back.
That was then.
Now he’s a big boy, about 15 pounds.  And he’s figured out that the only way to get his food is to dive, so he’s spending more time eating, sleeping and basically just chillin’ at the bottom of his tank. We still don’t know how well he can really navigate with only one front flipper because we’re so crowded we haven’t been able to get him into a tank large enough for him to even try. He looks like he can do it, but when your tank is square tank and on the small side you really can’t go anywhere.
He’s doing the best he can with what he has. He takes each day as it comes and adapts to whatever it brings, always with a smile on his little Loggerhead beak.
In fact, Lefty reminds us of us. We perform amazing feats daily in a little square box. We take whatever resources we can beg, borrow and re-purpose and (in the words of Tim Gunn) “make it work.” And that’s not just not us blowing our own horn. Time and again we’ve been told by people that whenever they ask our colleagues about our turtle hospital the one common response is:  they do more, with less, than anybody.
We’re looking forward to the same thing Lefty is: a bigger place where we can show the world what we’re really capable of! Help us get there in 2010 by stepping up to our “Family Giving Challenge” or by adopting one of our patients. Check out the details on our website: www.seaturtlehospital.org.  A big “flipper” hug from Lefty!

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Neighborhoods of Holly Ridge, Holly Ridge, NC Real Estate for Sale-Holly Ridge Town Council

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Neighborhoods of Holly Ridge, Holly Ridge, NC, Real Estate For Sale

HOLLY RIDGE — Holly Ridge Town Council is looking a gift house in the mouth.

The town decided not to accept the the donation of the Summerhouse Sales Center proposed by Southeast Waterfront Marketing, Inc.

Town council members unanimously rejected the offer at its regular meeting this week.

“The biggest reasons for not accepting the donation are the costs to the citizens of the town, not knowing what we were going to do with the building,” Town Manager Tony Fann said.

Southeast Waterfront Marketing offered to donate the building, a double modular unit with porches currently located at the corner of Sound Road and N.C. 17 but to be moved to property the town owns on Sound Road. Construction of the sales office, including the purchase of the trailer in 2007, cost more than $322,000, according to Southeast Waterfront Marketing’s proposal. The donation would have included the sales office, its custom porches and handicap ramp, landscape and related materials, landscape lighting, dishwasher, refrigerator and gravel if needed. The proposal stipulated that the town lease the building to Summerhouse for three years with two one-year options at a cost of $1 per year.

The town would be responsible for all the costs involved in the relocation of the center and had received a $27,300 bid from Carolina House Movers in Beulaville for the move. Additional town costs would include removal and replanting of the landscape, water and sewer taps, utility hook ups, maintenance and insurance.

The building must be moved from its current property by March 31.

Chris Scharf, the sales manager for Summerhouse, said it will now be up to Southeast Waterfront Marketing to find another use for the building.

The company plans to continue to have an office in Holly Ridge, either at another location in the town or on site at the Summerhouse at Everett Bay development.

Scharf said the decision has not been made whether to use the Summerhouse Sales Center at one of those sites.

Article from Jacksonville Daily News by Suzanne Ulbrich – January 25, 2010

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