Earlier this year three New Hanover beach towns learned there was no appropriation for longstanding shoreline nourishment projects, since then Army Corps of Engineers has shifted funds for Kure and Carolina beaches, but not Wrightsville Beach, for now.
SOUTHEASTERN N.C. — North Carolina’s Congressional delegation has announced a partial solution in the quest to reclaim missing beach renourishment money.
A shoreline nourishment project is underway at Carolina Beach in 2019, with Wrightsville Beach seen in the distance. Funds for upcoming nourishment projects approved for area beaches has been directed elsewhere. (Port City Daily/Michael Praats)
NEW HANOVER COUNTY The end-of-year federal spending packages signed in Washington left the beach towns in New Hanover County with the impression that major funding was on its way, with shoreline nourishment projects run by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers poised to begin at all three towns.
But when the Corps released its
work plan a guiding document outlining where the funds would go the county’s beach towns were no longer mentioned.