Officials with the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have signed an agreement on how to proceed with requests for erosion control measures deemed necessary to protect roads, homes and businesses from rapidly eroding ocean and sound side areas of Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
National Park Service South Atlantic-Gulf Regional Director Stan Austin and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Regional Director Leopoldo Miranda-Castro signed Wednesday a record of decision for a sediment management framework environmental impact statement at Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
The National Park Service’s selected alternative B. Under this alternative, the park service could permit other agencies and municipalities to conduct, with conditions, sediment management in the form of oceanside and soundside beach nourishment, filling island breaches, and dune restoration, according to documents. This alternative would also recognize that park service and others may independently or in partnership restore beach habitats or periodically protect specific facilities or resources through sediment placement in areas that have been affected by erosion.