$23.5M contract aims to help eroding beaches, safeguard coastal properties

$23.5M contract aims to help eroding beaches, safeguard coastal properties

The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wilmington District.

‘We need it’: After delay, renourishment project planned for Carolina, Kure Beaches

Both towns saw their project delayed an additional year after the sole bid to complete the renourishment this past offseason came in double the expected cost.

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WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – Douglas Rasp has had his condo on the southern end of Kure Beach for over a decade. Looking over it from his balcony, he said it’s rare to see the beach so narrow, with waves nearly crashing into his building off Fort Fisher Blvd. The town, which has now gone three years without a beach renourishment project, is in desperate need of more sand, Rasp says. “If we have a hurricane,” he says, “We could lose a building.” The…