N. Carolina pipeline spill size estimate rises, again, to 1.2M gallons
Associated Press
Huntersville, N.C. An energy company has again underestimated the amount of gasoline that spilled from a crack in a pipeline running through a North Carolina nature preserve.
The Colonial Pipeline Company issued a statement Friday saying it likely underestimated the size of the spill at 1.2 million gallons. The company did not provide a new estimate.
The company initially reported the size of the spill in September at 273,000 gallons. It revised that estimate upward to 1.2 million gallons in January.
The spill occurred in August where the pipeline crosses the Oehler Nature Preserve north of Charlotte.
The Colonial Pipeline Company issued a statement Friday saying it likely underestimated the size of the spill at 1.2 million gallons. The company did not provide a new estimate.
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Town of Nags Head getting ready for the next beachfill April 15, 2021, by Zlatan Hrvacevic
The Town of Nags Head, North Carolina, is planning a beach restoration project to replace sand lost during 2019’s Hurricane Dorian.
Construction is expected to take place over the summer of 2022.
The beach restoration project will place 567,000 cubic yards of sand on 4.45 miles of Nags Head’s beach in the southern part of the town, from about Jennette’s Pier near Mile Post 16, south to the corporate limits abutting Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
The estimated $13.9 million project cost will be funded by a FEMA/North Carolina disaster assistance grant of $12,063,269, a North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Water Resources Coastal Storm Damage Mitigation grant of $1,408,247, and a contribution of approximately $480,480 from the Town of Nags Head’s beach nourishment capital reserve.