BOILING SPRING LAKES -- Officials in Boiling Spring Lakes say they are worried that truck and train traffic from a proposed international port terminal could ruin their community.
Town leaders don't want the traffic leaving the port, near Southport, rumbling through their quiet city of about 4,000 people, the Wilmington Star-News reported yesterday.
They expressed their concerns in a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is doing a feasibility study of the proposed port, which would be near the mouth of the Cape Fear River in Brunswick County.
The State Ports Authority estimates that the $2 billion container port would support nearly a half-million jobs and generate more than $1 billion a year by attracting business from ports in New Jersey, Virginia and South Carolina.
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