If anything was clear after two hours with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday discussing shoaling in Hatteras Inlet, it was that remedies will not come easy. And even rebuilding of the eroded Hatteras spit is on the table. At the meeting in the Coastal Studies Institute in Wanchese called last week by […]
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The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is preparing to offer leases for wind power off North Carolina at the same time that oil prices are at rock bottom. Expensive offshore wind energy seem like a fool’s pursuit, that is until the future is taken into account. Land-based wind generation has gotten so cheap, it […]
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Beach nourishment along a 2-mile stretch of shoreline in Buxton may be delayed by an ongoing spike in demand for dredges, but Dare County won’t know until it has all the permits and can ask for project bids. Bids that were opened this week on planned beach nourishment projects in Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk […]
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With a dredging project just completed in Hatteras Inlet, conditions that have clogged the channel since the summer have been considerably improved. “I’ve talked to my captains and they’re pretty comfortable right now,” Jed Dixon, deputy Director of the state Ferry Division, said at Monday’s meeting of the Dare County Oregon Inlet and Waterways Commission. […]
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Dredging will start this week in a shoaled section of channel in Hatteras Inlet, a project that will provide much-needed relief to ferry and private vessel traffic to and from the Atlantic. Working off a recently completed survey, the state Ferry Division will use the state dredge Carolina to clear about 700-800 feet between the […]
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It would be hard to imagine a more fitting outcome to the saga of the storm-tossed Cape Hatteras Lighthouse stones. Remnants of the foundation at the original location on the beach of the 1870 lighthouse, 36 huge blocks of granite engraved with the names of the lighthouse keepers, now serve as natural outdoor seating in […]
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Property owners from Hatteras Island’s northern villages came out in force Wednesday night to tell the Dare County Planning Board in no uncertain terms that they did not want to change their current zoning. A vocal and at times raucous standing-room-only crowd filled every seat and lined the walls of the Rodanthe-Waves-Salvo Community Center to […]
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With navigation through Hatteras Inlet close to impossible since recent storms, the inlet’s troubles occupied most of the discussion at Tuesday’s meeting of the Dare County Oregon Inlet and Waterways Commission. Surveyors were working in the inlet yesterday to provide the information needed to clear an area of the old ferry channel between the Ocracoke […]
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Tracking a rescued bald eagle flying over our coast might even be more fun than following the travels of a great white shark off of our coast. It would take a hard heart not to be touched by the adventures of Yangchen, a young rehabilitated bald eagle that has been soaring above the skies of […]
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Septic tanks and bird droppings contribute to the stew of pollutants that pour into the ocean during and after storms on the Outer Banks, but measures to remediate the toxic flow could prove to be costly and politically difficult. A draft report on a stormwater pilot project almost a decade in the making details episodic […]
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