“We can’t get services to our people right now,” Keeler told the planning board, using Novant Family Medicine Rocky Point as an example. The National Weather Service reported more than 1,000 people within Pender County had to be rescued from flooding. Discharge from the wastewater plant, he worried, could contaminate ground water and the Holly Shelter Game Land, located adjacent to the proposed site. “Nowhere in the materials have they said: ‘Oh, yeah we’re definitely gonna get one of those,’” he spoke to the planning board. The special use permit modification and the rezoning for the wastewater treatment plant will go before the Pender County Board of Commissioners on Sept. 21.