. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. MAY 1 9 1976 Doc. NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY APRIL, 1976 1235 Burlington Laboratories NCSU, Raleigh, 27607 Tel: (919) 737-2454. ptic tanks: The consequences of growth Wallace Beckham gets downright upset when he starts talking about the water system he wants for his community. One of the reasons Beckham gets so exercised, he says, is that in places crowding development in Avon is outpacing the ground's ability to process wastewater from septic tanks be- fore returning it to the water table and peopl
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. MAY 1 9 1976 Doc. NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY APRIL, 1976 1235 Burlington Laboratories NCSU, Raleigh, 27607 Tel: (919) 737-2454. ptic tanks: The consequences of growth Wallace Beckham gets downright upset when he starts talking about the water system he wants for his community. One of the reasons Beckham gets so exercised, he says, is that in places crowding development in Avon is outpacing the ground's ability to process wastewater from septic tanks be- fore returning it to the water table and people's wells. Some wells, Beckham says, have been tested and found contaminated in his Outer Banks com- munity. "The more septic tanks get in, the more pollution we're going to get. .. They're waiting for us to have an epidemic out here," Beckham says. And he isn't the only person in coastal North Carolina who's worried about septic tanks. Mrs. Rosetta Short, head of the Long Beach planning commission, says the rapid development of her town has created a "serious problem and possible pollution of drinking water and the ; Townspeople, she says, "don't realize it. They see all these lots that are undeveloped ... but we've got to see five to ten years" into the future. To begin to deal with the potential crowding of septic tanks and their drainage fields, Mrs. Short is recommending increasing the square footage required on each lot, because, she says, "the carry- ing capacity of the land cannot tolerate 7,500 square ; (Square footage requirements vary from county to county.) Some of the larger communities in coastal North Carolina have waste treatment plants, but smaller communities, isolated homes and most of the houses along the coast use septic tanks for disposal and wells for water. Septic tank overflow and in- adequately treated sewage have been blamed for much of the pollution contaminating over 600,000 (See "A difficult
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