Coastal News Today | NC - County requests feds withdraw rufa red knot 'critical habitat' proposal coastalnewstoday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from coastalnewstoday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Coastal News Today | NC - Beach commission, shore protection office plan study to ID additional sources of sand for nourishment projects coastalnewstoday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from coastalnewstoday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Waterways around Harkers Island and the channel from Harkers Island to Cape Lookout are shown in Army Corps of Engineers surveys overlaid Google Earth imagery provided by Carteret County’s Shoreline Protection Office. Map: Google et al.
CARTERET COUNTY Boaters unfamiliar with the waters around Harkers Island and Cape Lookout National Seashore can quickly get into a lot of trouble, and that’s happening more and more.
The risk of running aground near Cape Lookout is nothing new and even seasoned skippers have discovered the perils.
Sponsor Spotlight
John Runkle and Nancy Dole
Shining a light on two of our most dedicated supporters: Thank you to John and Nancy and all our CRO Press Club members for their support that makes our reporting possible.
A private dredge operation is shown underway in 2019 at a Carteret County marina. Photo: Carteret County Shore Protection Office
More than two years have passed since the Army Corps of Engineers announced that only sand pumped from federal projects could be placed in Corps-maintained dredged material disposal sites, leaving local governments, marinas and private property owners the challenge to find land on which to put sand removed from clogged waterways.
Since then, state and Corps officials have been working on a plan to identify nonfederally maintained sites, information that may be rolled out incrementally in the months leading up to the release of the first phase of the plan, according to Todd Horton, the Corps’ deputy chief of navigation.