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EMERALD ISLE — After almost exactly three months, the 9.4-mile-long Emerald Isle beach nourishment projected ended early Monday morning, with the exception of planting vegetation on new dunes, which is set to commence next week. The Liberty Island, one of two Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co. vessels working on the project, delivered its last load of sand via pipeline to the strand in the eastern end of town at about 6 a.m. Monday. The other vessel on the project, the Ellis Island, finished its work Sunday night, transporting a load of sand from the borrow site in the ocean off Atlantic Beach...

Cocoa Beach — the Space Coast’s premier tourism spot — soon will see new sands, dredged up and pumped in from shoals several miles offshore of Cape Canaveral.

After numerous delays because of coronavirus pandemic-related issues with the crews of the contractor, the massive Emerald Isle beach nourishment project is scheduled to begin Thursday.

The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending February 12th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US fell by 237 billion cubic feet to 2,281 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 105 billion cubic feet, or 4.4% below the 2,386 billion cubic feet that were in storage on February 12th of last year, but 57 billion cubic feet, or 2.6% above the five-year average of 2,224 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 12th of February in recent years....the 237 billion cubic feet that we...

EMERALD ISLE — With the Emerald Isle beach nourishment project scheduled to begin Saturday, Feb. 20, the Carteret County Shore Protection Office wants oceanfront property owners to know what to expect.