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Contractors expect to get underway in mid-November on the Brunswick County town's long-planned $11.4 million, 1,050-foot terminal groin as well as a beach nourishment project with sand from Shallotte Inlet.
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Ocean Isle Beach officials say the planned terminal groin would eliminate long-term erosion damage to existing development on the east end of town. Image: Corps of Engineers
A recent court ruling now opens the way for Ocean Isle Beach to build a terminal groin at the east end of its ocean shoreline and plans are underway to kick off construction later this year.
A three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s decision that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers fairly considered the alternatives included in an environmental impact statement examining the proposed project. The judges rendered their opinion March 26.
Then, a tornado struck late Monday, killing three people, injuring at least 10 and causing damage to more than four dozen homes, most of them in the affluent Ocean Ridge Plantation neighborhood near U.S. 17 about four miles north of Ocean Isle Beach proper.
The damage was relatively isolated but also extensive. I ve been to a number of different scenes, said Brunswick County Commissioners Chairman Randy Thompson, who served as the county s emergency management director for 10 years before he retired. With the new, stable construction like we have in Brunswick County, I have not seen the magnitude of the damage I ve seen like that from Monday night s storm.