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Web posted Sunday, June
22, 2003
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Supreme Court to consider Jasper port
Wednesday
Carolina Morning News
The
South Carolina Supreme Court will hear arguments
for and against Jasper County's condemnation of
land owned by Georgia for a proposed deep-water
shipping port on Wednesday.
The high court
will consider the state of Georgia's challenge of
Jasper County's condemnation of some 1,776 acres
south of Hardeeville beginning at 11:30 a.m. The
proceeding is open to the public.
Jasper
County has a partnership with Stevedoring Services
of America of Seattle and Savannah to develop a
container-cargo shipping terminal several miles
downriver of the Georgia Ports Authority's Garden
City Terminal.
Jasper had proposed buying
the land from the state of Georgia, which has used
the property for dumping harbor dredge spoil, but
when the deal went nowhere, the county condemned
it.
The county says it would lease the land
to Stevedoring Services of America and build a
public business and industrial park on a portion
of the land.
The Supreme Court hearing,
expected to last about an hour, will be at 1231
Gervais St. in Columbia.
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