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^Tuesday, June 17, 1980	3	The	Times-}	'une/T	he	States-ltem
Additional $100,00 Needed for Marina
By LARRY CIKO Staff writer
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. ? The first phase of a proposed $1.2 million anchorage basin and marina at Bayou Cadet would cost Hancock County about $lu0,000 more than first estimated.
The news was delivered Monday to the Board of Supervisors by Wilson Webre, director of the Port and Harbor Commission.
In other business, the board voted to request that oil companies meet with county officials prior to drilling in an effort to minimize damage to county roads.
The basin would provide sorely needed docking space for the area?s commercial and sport fishermen.
Webre said the Mobile district of the Corps of Engineers has suggested several changes to the basic design and is asking Hancock ?to make new commitments considerably more in cost than originally envisioned.?
Webre said the port commission wanted direction from the supervisors because commissioner members are reluctant to obligate the county to additional financing ?or any subsequent amount of monies that would be necessary to build an entire facility there.?
Webre said the corps? suggested changes involve less land acquisition, but vessels would be required to moor perpendicularly to the banks and only 44 berths would be provided. Plans by Burk and Associates, a New Orleans consulting firm, show 55 berths and 11 dock slips.
Webre said piling and dredging costs, originally to be borne by the corps,
would be shifted to the county, mean-,? ing Hancock?s cost has increased to $300,000 as compared to $201,000 orig-^ inally estimated. Cost to the corps has been revised downward fro|n$ $244,000 to $107,000.
Webre said the corps? revised dimeiPjlj sions of the basin are 330 feet by 410 feet, which is slightly smaller than : first planned. It would remain at an 8-foot depth.
The basin would be located 1,800 feet inside Bayou Cadet (known locally- '; as Bayou Caddy) and adjacent to an *: existing federal channel.
On another topic. Supervisor Bert./-Courrege said oil companies are tear:~* ing up county roads by running oveN weight trucks over them.
When told by board attorney Walter ' Gex that supervisors don?t have the power to require the companies to 1 obtain a permit prior to using the roads, Courrege said he personally blocked a road Friday in the Pear-lington area.
?Today the company (Mobil Oil) is in there fixing the road,? said Cour- f rege.	^
He said the trucks are getting special permits to travel on Interstate 10 because of excessive weight limits, but there is no similar procedure regarding county roads.	\
The board voted to receive bids July 21 for equipment to start the first phase of reappraisal of all county property.
Tax assessor-collector Eddie Mur? tagh said a recent court ruling requires j all counties to reappraise by 1983. He presented a plan using an ?in-house":? method which would be considerably, cheaper than hiring an outside consultant for an estimated $1 million. ' |