A view of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore showing the oceanfront and soundside. Photo: NPS
MANTEO From beach nourishment to channel dredging to erosion control to material disposal to shoreline preservation, sand management in coastal North Carolina communities is no longer a sporadic chore.
It is an engineering challenge, a ballooning expense, a bureaucratic headache, an evolving menace.
With rapidly changing coastal dynamics, it is also a necessity and, increasingly, a blessing.
Long-term planning for projects whether permitting or designing that would replace, preserve, move and/or remove sand is currently underway or about to be implemented at local, state and federal levels in North Carolina.
Publisher s note (from a few years back): Please be aware that we have created a new fixture at the foot of this post, describing the location of some of North Carolina s most memorable scenic points of interest. The interactive map will be on the second page.
Publisher s note
(from Now - January 1, 2021):
I am reviving this old series, but with a twist: I will be reworking these older posts - just a few tweaks - then I will intersperse a new post of more recent images, listed as a greater volume, among these older, lower volume posts within this series;
RALEIGH, N.C. - Former state Sen. Marc Basnight, a Democrat from North Carolina's barrier islands who became one of North Carolina’s most powerful contempor
Former state Senator Marc Basnight, an Outer Banks Democrat who became one of North Carolina's most powerful leaders while serving a record 18 years as