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By Sam Walker on February 14, 2018
The Buxton beach nourishment project is now over 88 percent complete, with a projected completion date of sometime in March. The work was originally planned to be finished in December, but was delayed by weather and mechanical issues.
Also in the latest video from Dare County’s MoreBeachToLove.com, Nags Head is almost ready to request bids for a 10-mile renourishment project that could take place as early as this summer.
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The measure introduced in the North Carolina House of Representatives on Thursday would reopen a lab in Nags Head closed earlier this decade that tests samples from area waters for shellfish sanitation and recreational quality.
Federal officials now say 35 cases of salmonella poisoning dating back to November are blamed on eggs from Rose Acre Farms in Hyde County that were recalled last month.
Firefighters were dispatched to the home on Ralph Lane on Roanoke Island at 5:47 p.m. Wednesday. No one was home at the time, and the cause of the fire is still being investigated.
Downthetoilet
Great idea let’s keeping pumping sand on the beaches in the middle of the summer! This is the greatest boondoggle since the light rail train in VB! The pipes are opened now and sand will be continue to be dumped at the expense of the tax payers and enjoyment of the visitors to OBX. Nothing like renting an oceanfront home only to be blinded by the lights from night work and sickened by the smell of diesel exhaust.
Zoya
The beach is badly depleted and it has to be done. The residents deserve solid beaches and the tourists do bring in money on which many of the locals depend. Environmentally speaking refurbishing the OBX beaches is only putting a bandage on a permanent wound, but it’s worth keeping up for as long as we can before just giving up on the local people and economy.
Tommy Peters
They should find the largest grain sand, shells, and gravel not dust to do the beaches. Why spend big bucks to do a half arsed job? For the stuff to stay on the beach it should be heavier. Otherwise it just washes away.
Crazy
How about we talk about the real problem. When all that pretty light sand is pumped on the beach it’s great. But then we get a strong north wind and guess what all that sand does is wash right down the beach and ends up where? You guessed it the inlet so now we get to pay once more to pump it and move it again. So talk about that.