Demobilization of the beach replenishment equipment at the 37th Street staging area is underway. The Resort Beach replenishment wasn’t completed after the sand dredged from the Atlantic Ocean Channel was found to be too fine and prone to washing away.

With the summer season beginning for the Resort Beach, the project will move to Croatan Beach, where replenishment is a higher priority. Work there is expected to be complete in July. The City is benefitting from the dredge activity of the Port Authority’s need to dredge the Atlantic Ocean Channel (AOC). The City doesn't turn down opportunities to put more material on the beach to enhance hurricane protection efforts along the Oceanfront. 

This project successfully placed 170,000 cubic yards of sand over 1,100 linear feet of beach. Sand is constantly churned around by the waves crashing onto the beach. This constant energy contributes to relocation of the sand up and down the coastline as well as back to sea.

Due to the additional time it took to place the finer grain-sized sand onto the Resort Beach, the contractor was unable to place the anticipated 950,000 cubic yards of sand. Because the Resort Beach project wasn’t completed this year, any unused funding will return to a hurricane protection fund for future replenishment efforts.

The City continues to monitor conditions and support our federal partners, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, on this important resiliency project.