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CURRITUCK — Currituck’s Atlantic shoreline appears to be creeping ever closer to residents’ homes in Corolla and other parts of the county’s Outer Banks due to shoreline erosion over the
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Details about a comprehensive proposal laying out numerous options for disposal of dredge material occupied much of Wednesday’s meeting of the Dare County Waterways Commission, indicating that finding somewhere to put excess sand may be as challenging as finding ways to keep it from washing away.
A dredge shown operating. Photo: Donna Barrett Reprinted from the Island Free Press Details about a comprehensive proposal laying out numerous options for disposal of dredge material occupied much of Wednesday’s meeting of the Dare County Waterways Commission, indicating that finding somewhere to put excess sand may be as challenging as finding ways to keep it from washing away. In a lengthy slide presentation on the proposed Dare County Dredge Material Management, Ken Willson with Wilmington-based consultant Coastal Protection Engineering, or CPE, told commissioners during its Jan. 20 rem...
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, mov...