Beach nourishment progress map for the Morehead City Harbor maintenance dredging project as of Feb. 3. Image: Carteret County Shoreline Protection Office
Maintenance dredging at the harbor for the North Carolina Port of Morehead City and simultaneous beach nourishment project for 2.5 miles of Atlantic Beach oceanfront that began Jan. 6 is one-third complete.
Weeks Marine is the contractor for the $18 million project planned under the Dredged Material Management Plan, or DMMP, developed for the Morehead City Harbor by the Army Corps of Engineers and the National Park Service.
Related: Dredging/Beach Renourishment Set to Begin The plan is to nourish just shy of 2.5 miles of Atlantic Beach’s oceanfront with the more than 1.143 million cubic yards of shoal material expected to be excavated or dredged from the Morehead City Harbor, mostly from the areas known as the Range B, Cutoff, and Range A.
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This past Sunday, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock took advantage of the calm seas and set the 2nd submerged pipeline that will be used for Phase III of the Post-Florence renourishment project.
According to the Carteret County Shore Protection Office, the 2nd pipeline was set just west of Bogue Inlet Pier in Reach 3.
These submerged pipelines will be “leap-frogged” west to east across the project as nourishment progresses in that general direction.
In their latest update, the county also announced that start date for the works has been pushed back to roughly February 20th.