2/24/10
Kitty Hawk rejects Nags Head sand financing
http://outerbanksvoice.com/2010/02/23/rebuilding-the-beach-is-on-two-agendas-this-week/
Dare questions Audubon letter
http://outerbanksvoice.com/2010/02/22/county-denounces-audubon-letter-on-beach-driving/
County denounces Audubon letter on shore access
http://outerbanksvoice.com/2010/02/22/county-denounces-audubon-letter-on-beach-driving/
Taylor defends removal of beach project documents
http://www.carteretnewstimes.com/articles/2010/02/24/topsail_voice/news/doc4b8537d21431b596853457.txt
Sand men finish $2.4M dredge and sand replenishment project
http://hamptonroads.com/2010/02/sand-men-finish-24m-dredge-and-sand-replenishment-project
Terminal groin draft report released
http://www.brunswickbeacon.com/cgi-bin/c2printstory.cgi?048+article+sectionname+20100223212107048048001
Working together for beach nourishment
http://www.carteretnewstimes.com/articles/2010/02/24/topsail_voice/editorial/doc4b85395f897e2016536017.txt
Filled tubes may be just a short-term fix
State Port Pilot by Ben Brown (2/24/10)
It’s one of the “ugliest things you’ve ever seen in your life,” and Bald Head Island has 16 of them. Thursday morning, the Brunswick Beaches Consortium (BBC) stared down a colossal, sand-filled tube — called a groin — reaching out from the beach and toward the ocean. Bald Head Island’s beach is the only in the state with a “groin field,” a wide row of such tubes that work in concert to slow erosion. But village council member Gene Douglas would gladly trade the entire “ugly” thing for one terminal groin.
“One terminal structure could do the same job or better than 16 sand tubes,” Douglas said. A terminal groin, he added, could also save the eroded island some taxpayer cash when figuring the costs of replacing the groin field every four to five years. The BBC on Thursday was observing progress in the latest replacement project, into which the village has pumped $1.13 million. The last set of groins on the island tattered away from years of weather whippings.
A terminal groin, a harder, tougher structure reaching out into the water to keep sand from slipping away, would have the longevity to pay for itself when compared to the soft and vulnerable groin field, Douglas said. He lamented to the BBC, a body of Brunswick beach leaders, that the state currently won’t allow terminal groins by law. It’s just one of the frustrations Bald Head Island has sounded, particularly since early 2009, when the shoreline crept closer and closer to homes. In result, “Basically you’ve got two projects going on simultaneously,” assistant village manager Chris McCall told the BBC observers, which included Caswell Beach mayor and BBC chair Harry Simmons, Ocean Isle Beach mayor Debbie Smith and Oak Island council member Dara Royal.
The two projects include the groin field replacement and a $15-million-plus beach renourishment that officials hope to conclude in March. McCall noted that the groin field should slow erosion of the new sand pumping onto the beach, but “they don’t stop it by any stretch of the imagination.” The groin field and renourishment projects are funded by the island’s taxpayers, but officials are lobbying the state for around $5 million in help. Unlike many Brunswick County beach towns, like Oak Island and Caswell Beach, Bald Head Island is not included in a federal project that affords construction of a protective beach berm and 50 years of maintenance. Part of Bald Head Island’s problem is that Congress simply hasn’t included the $100,000 needed to start a study to determine whether the federal government has interest in Bald Head Island’s beach nourishment. Congress won’t allow Bald Head Island, or any other local source, to supply that money. Reasons vary, but the island’s officials have opined that the federal Office of Management and Budget doesn’t want to get a new, potentially expensive beach project going, so it’s sitting on the $100,000 that could initiate the process.
An official with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) at a BBC meeting this time last year said there may also be some debate as to whether Bald Head Island is a public beach, and that could affect the federal government’s decision to spend money there. There is no bridge to Bald Head Island. Generally, access is by private boat or a 20-minute, $16 ferry ride from Southport. Beach-access walkways are a short distance from Bald Head Island’s ferry dock. Local officials on and off the island have agreed that Bald Head is a public beach, which doesn’t always mean free of charge. Some public beaches with parking meters have received federal dollars, Simmons has noted. But Bald Head Island is preparing for some federal assistance this year, though in a roundabout way. USACE will dredge sand from the shipping channel that runs past Bald Head and “dispose” of that sand on the island’s beaches. It’s all part of the Sand Management Plan that dictates the healthiest way of dumping the dredged materials, which in some projects are simply sprayed offshore. The earliest that project could begin is November 15, which would mean two renourishments within relatively close calendar distance for the island, though the federal project may wait until 2011.
2/20/10
Local beach towns argue for option to slow inlet creep
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100217/ARTICLES/100219670/1015/NEWS01?Title=Local-beach-towns-argue-for-option-to-slow-inlet-creep
Renourishment begins on Wrightsville Beach
http://www.luminanews.com/article.asp?aid=5848&iid=206&sud=30
Scientists and their equipment fan out on Cape Point beach to survey coastal processes
http://www.islandfreepress.org/2010Archives/01.28.2010-USGeologicalSurveyCoastalErosionStudyIsComingtoCapePoints.html
Kill Devil Hills wants federal payback for sand
http://outerbanksvoice.com/2010/02/17/kill-devil-hills-wants-federal-payback-for-sand/
Topsail Beach newsletter item angers beach nourishment supporters
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100218/ARTICLES/100219628/1020/news01?Title=Topsail-Beach-newsletter-item-angers-beach-nourishment-supporters
Citations tell part of the story
http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2010/02/17/top_stories/tops319.prt
Behind the story: A nourishment sandstorm
http://outerbanksvoice.com/2010/02/19/behind-the-story-a-nourishment-sandstorm/
2/17/10
CBRA zone grows large
http://www.carteretnewstimes.com/articles/2010/02/17/tideland_news/news/doc4b7c06216e90e467772187.txt
Figure Eight Island homeowners lobbied for terminal groin support
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100216/ARTICLES/100219733/1015/NEWS01?Title=Figure-Eight-Island-homeowners-lobbied-for-terminal-groin-support
County wants fair funding, worries about permitting
http://outerbanksvoice.com/2010/02/15/coming-up-a-mayors-pitch-for-beach-nourishment/
Sales tax nixed; consensus of towns sought
http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2010/02/17/politics/pols318.prt
CRC to get groin study
http://www.carteretnewstimes.com/articles/2010/02/17/news-times/news/doc4b7c47a56bfea073909468.txt
Study on jetties “bloated,” Coastal Federation says
http://outerbanksvoice.com/2010/02/06/study-on-jetties-bloated-coastal-federation-says/
Shoreline protection committee gets down to business
http://www.carteretnewstimes.com/articles/2010/02/17/topsail_voice/news/doc4b7bffe90bb68261337384.txt
90 signatures minus one...
http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2010/02/17/top_stories/tops318.prt
2/16/10
Corps dredge provides Point nourishment
http://www.carteretnewstimes.com/articles/2010/02/10/tideland_news/news/doc4b72cf428be77479258824.txt
Citizens form committee to back interim nourishment project
http://www.carteretnewstimes.com/articles/2010/02/10/topsail_voice/news/doc4b72c222a8be7690975093.txt
Topsail Beach sand project proponents get organized
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100210/ARTICLES/100219959/1020/NEWS01?Title=Topsail-Beach-sand-project-proponents-get-organized
Dare County access Web site posts interviews with Mike Berry
http://www.islandfreepress.org/2010Archives/02.15.2010-Dare%20CountyAccessWebSitePostsInterviewsWithMikeBerry.html
2/10/10
Oh, it's a taxing situation
http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2010/02/10/top_stories/tops325.prt
Sandbags to build up on Ocean Isle Beach (with video)
http://www.thesunnews.com/news/local/v-print/story/1307000.html
Beach access DEIS to be released soon
http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2010/02/10/politics/pols325.prt
Draft of CRC groin report release
http://www.carteretnewstimes.com/articles/2010/02/05/news-times/news/doc4b6c52874d017710291946.txt
Discussion on NC jetties heads next to scientists (AP)
http://www.thesunnews.com/564/v-print/story/1304014.html
Budget includes beach funding
http://www.jdnews.com/news/president-72487-beach-budget.html
Park Service releases annual reports for protected species on the seashore
http://www.islandfreepress.org/2010Archives/02.08.2010-ParkServiceReleasesAnnualReportsForProtectedSpeciesOnTheSeashore.html
2/4/10
Eye of a human hurricane: Pea Island, Oregon Inlet, and Bodie Island, northern Outer Banks, North Carolina
from new special paper 460, Geological Society of America
http://www.protectthebeach.com/temp/Riggs_et_al_GSA_sp-paper-11-09.pdf
Chairman takes aim at Audubon
http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2010/02/03/politics/pols332.prt
Offshore Energy A Complex Issue
http://www.metronc.com/article/index.aspx?id=2042&print=true
You lead, we'll follow
http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2010/02/03/letters-editorials/letters332-daws.prt
Where’s the fairness?
http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2010/02/03/letters-editorials/letters332-parr.prt
Look for happy medium
http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2010/02/03/letters-editorials/letters332-thom.prt
Let beaches move
http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/story/317537.html
2/1/10
North Topsail Beach, North Carolina: A model for maximizing coastal hazard vulnerability
from new special paper 460, Geological Society of America
http://www.protectthebeach.com/temp/topsail%20paper-05e.pdf
Record of decision on Bonner Bridge replacement is delayed again
http://www.islandfreepress.org/2010Archives/01.27.2010-RecordOfDecisionOnBonnerBridgeReplacementIsDelayedAgain.html
Bonner Bridge replacement work stalls again
http://hamptonroads.com/2010/01/bonner-bridge-replacement-work-stalls-again
After 'Nor'Ida,' forecasters seek residents' help
http://hamptonroads.com/2010/01/after-norida-forecasters-seek-residents-help
Sea-level rise slowly becomes issue in Outer Banks
http://hamptonroads.com/2010/01/sealevel-rise-slowly-becomes-issue-outer-banks
Topsail looks for sand in Intracoastal Waterway
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100127/ARTICLES/100129682/1004?Title=Topsail-looks-for-sand-in-Intracoastal-Waterway
Rise exaggerated
http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/story/312395.html
1/27/10
Audubon solicits scientists to support closure
http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2010/01/27/top_stories/tops339.prt
Wilson facing pressure to resign CRC seat amid Easley influence-peddling probe
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100126/ARTICLES/100129732/1015/NEWS01?Title=Wilson-facing-pressure-to-resign-CRC-seat-amid-Easley-influence-peddling-probe
Nags Head faces tough issues
http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2010/01/27/politics/pols339.prt
Court sides with island developers (SC)
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/jan/27/court-sides-with-island-developers/
Scientists: Sea levels on the rise
http://www.jdnews.com/news/levels-72070-raleigh-rise.html
Long Beach Township to make "holdout'' homeowners pay for their own dune work
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/press/ocean/article_4cdf75a4-07a4-11df-a7d9-001cc4c002e0.html
1/20/10
Dredging undercuts state jetties study
http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/state/story/293514.html
Settlement opens N. Jersey beaches to public
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/81437937.html
Galveston Island beachfront home buyouts on hold
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6814518.html
'Nights in Rodanthe' house arrives in new spot
http://hamptonroads.com/2010/01/nights-rodanthe-house-arrives-new-spot
Serendipity arrives at its new home in Rodanthe
http://www.islandfreepress.org/2010Archives/01.18.2010-SerendipityArrivesAtItsNewHome.html
Hilton Head seeks state aid to renourish beach
http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/story/1106985.html
1/18/10
Sea-level rise creeps into state plans
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100115/ARTICLES/100119768/1020/NEWS01?Title=Sea-level-rise-creeps-into-state-plans-
Presentations from forum - http://dcm2.enr.state.nc.us/slr/presentations.html
N.C. prepares for rising seas
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local_state/story/287133.html
Ocean levels threaten Outer Banks (AP)
http://www.thesunnews.com/news/local/v-print/story/1264767.html
Coastal insurance hike goes to court
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local_state/story/285254.html
Serendipity moved – but not all the way to its new home
http://www.islandfreepress.org/2010Archives/01.15.2010-SerendipityMovedButNotAllTheWayToItsNewHome.html
Are mammals important?
http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2010/01/13/letters-editorials/letters353-shea.prt
N.C. sea level rise of 3.28 feet by 2100?
http://jackbetts.blogspot.com/2010/01/nc-sea-level-rise-of-325-feet-by-2100.html
1/15/10
Scientists push planning, not pullout, to deal with rising sea level
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100114/ARTICLES/100119809/1020/NEWS01?Title=Scientists-push-planning-not-pullout-to-deal-with-rising-sea-level-
Inlet proves groins' flaw, group says
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100113/ARTICLES/1134004/1020/NEWS01?Title=Inlet-proves-groins-flaw-group-says
Masonboro beach first to be nourished
http://www.luminanews.com/article.asp?aid=5671&iid=201&sud=30
New reservations for Hunting Island cabins won't be accepted, state says (SC)
http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/story/1101206.html
Serendipity may be on the move on Friday
http://www.islandfreepress.org/2010Archives/01.13.2010-SerendipityMayBeOnTheMoveOnFriday.html
Coastal Construction
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100114/LETTERS/100119828/1107/OPINION?Title=Coastal-Construction
1/13/10
Long-delayed dredging to proceed
http://www.carteretnewstimes.com/articles/2010/01/10/news-times/news/doc4b48efefcd33f936194033.txt
Beach work advances
http://www.carteretnewstimes.com/articles/2010/01/13/news-times/news/doc4b4dfdc9a1c78865762367.txt
Emerald Isle nourishment plan OK’d
http://www.carteretnewstimes.com/articles/2010/01/13/tideland_news/news/doc4b4de5938d424748665318.txt
Science forum planned on sea level rise ranges
http://www.jdnews.com/news/report-71646-forum-rise.html
Kudos to response
http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2010/01/13/letters-editorials/letters353-wimb.prt
1/8/10
The deal is sealed, and Serendipity will be on the move
http://www.islandfreepress.org/2010Archives/01.06.2010-TheDealIsSealedAndSerendipityWillBeOnTheMove.html
Replenishing Wrightsville’s beaches
http://www.luminanews.com/article.asp?aid=5614&iid=200&sud=30
1/6/10
Delaware beaches: Caught in the shifting politics of sand
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20091227/NEWS02/912270373/1007/Caught-in-the-shifting-politics-of-sand
Sea turtles strand in record numbers on Outer Banks
http://hamptonroads.com/2010/01/sea-turtles-strand-record-numbers-outer-banks
Sound retreat on replenishing beaches (op-ed)
http://www.protectthebeach.com/temp/op%20op%20ed%201_03_10.pdf
A different perspective
http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2010/01/06/letters-editorials/letters360-elli.prt
In response to - http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2010/01/06/letters-editorials/letters402-plat.prt
1/4/10
Renourishing plans bring new challenges for endangered piping plovers (SC)
http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/story/1082028.html
AP - http://www.thesunnews.com/575/story/1234296.html
Beach renourishment big project for 2010 in Ocean Isle Beach
http://www.brunswickbeacon.com/cgi-bin/c2printstory.cgi?048+article+sectionname+20091229174328048048009
Don't trash the tree: Used Christmas trees offer dune stabilization along beaches
http://www.jdnews.com/common/printer/view.php?db=jdn&id=71237
Rodanthe movie house sold to NC bail bondsman (AP)
http://hamptonroads.com/2009/12/nights-rodanthe-house-sold-bail-bondsman
Used Christmas trees bring another gift to NC (AP)
http://www.thesunnews.com/564/v-print/story/1243696.html
The 'short bridge' to oblivion
http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/columnists_blogs/other_views/story/263397.html
Eminent domain justified on LBI
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/B3/20091228/OPINION01/912280308/0/OPINION/Eminent-domain-justified-on-LBI
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