BEACH RENOURISHMENT
 

2010 Beach Renourishment Project Has Been Awarded

Town Officials are pleased to announce the Beach Renourishment Project for Ocean Isle Beach has been awarded to Great Lakes Dredging.  This project is being performed in conjunction with beach renourishment projects for Carolina, Kure and Wrightsville Beach as well as maintenance dredging of Masonboro Inlet and Sand Bypassing.  An official schedule for this project will be released shortly by the Corps of Engineers.  This renourishment is part of the on-going 50-year Federal Project Cooperation Agreement between the Town of Ocean Isle Beach and Corps of Engineers.  The project is estimated to place approximately 509,200 cubic yards of sand on the beach beginning at Shallotte Boulevard and running eastwardly to point between Concord and Tarboro Streets.  The borrow area for this project will be the Shallotte Inlet.  The Contractor shall extend a 6.0’ N. A. V. D. berm crest horizontally landward and the width of the berm is dependent upon the proportional quantity of sand to be placed at the time of construction.  The government interpretation of the borrow area and beach profile survey, along with the slope of the material during placement, will be the basis for determining the width of the construction berm.