Its been a long road to get to this point but Duck, Kitty Hawk, and Kill Devil Hills have committed to work together and pump sand on the beach. It looks like the project will be begin 2016.
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Towns commit to $42.6 million plan to widen Dare shoreline
By Rob Morris on October 15, 2013
The beach north of Avalon Fishing Pier Monday. (Rob Morris)
What the federal government refused to fund, towns on the Outer Banks have committed to tackling, and more — pumping sand onto beaches in Duck and from Kitty Hawk to South Nags Head.
With the help of money from the Dare County Shoreline Management Fund, Nags Head was first two years ago with a 10-mile, $36 million beach nourishment project.
Now, three more towns have signed an agreement to share county funds and to foot part of the bill for their own projects.
Monday night, Kill Devil Hills added its name to an interlocal agreement accepting $6 million from the shoreline fund and making a commitment to borrow $5.475 million to cover the balance of the $11.475 million estimated total cost.
Commissioner Bill Pitt said the town originally wanted to pump 100 cubic yards of sand per linear foot onto the beach, but that was when Kill Devil Hills was planning to do the work on its own.
The new funding plan, outlined Monday by County Manager Bobby Outten, limits that to 75 cubic yards, based on the average in Nags Head. But it also ensures that the towns will receive money to do the work simultaneously, lowering costs and adding longer stretches of shoreline.
Engineers have said that chances of success increase with the length of beach widened. Sand on the Outer Banks also tends to migrate southward. Read the rest of the story
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