Contractor Battles Narrowing Beach

Work was underway in Nags Head today as Carolina Marine Structures of
Kill Devil Hills began work on replacing four ocean outfalls along the town's
beaches. The $1.37 million contract to replace the outfalls was made necessary
after the town's $37 million nourishment project. As work was getting underway
there were visible signs of extreme erosion in the work area. (see photo below)

This photo, taken a couple hours after high tide today shows a narrow beach
which gives the contractor little room to work in replacing the ocean outfalls.
Well over one-half of the new nourishment beach in this area has disappeared,
leaving that area with no more sand than existed prior to the nourishment
project.  A day or two of strong northeast winds could make the contractor's
work very difficult. The town is required to extend the outfalls out into the
ocean to the point where they existed before nourishment, a task that may
prove difficult during the winter months, with the continuing narrowing of the
beach.