From the May 5, 2016, Wilmington (N.C.) Star- News "Editorial: Keep Fort Fisher dam rock solid."
Photograph accompanying it: "A massive engineering feat of the 1800s, also known as the New Inlet Dam, 'The Rocks' constitute a gigantic breakwater, or rock jetty, at the tip of federal Point. The rocks extend from the mainland and beyond Zeke's Island for more than three miles."
Senator Michael lee, R-New Hanover County, proposed removing a section of the 130-year-old dam which was built to close New Inlet into the Cape Fear River which was formed by a storm in 1761. This was the favored entrance to the Cape Fear River and Wilmington by blockade-runners during the Civil War and protected by the guns of Fort Fisher.
Lee wants the southern section, called the Swash Defense Dam removed to recreate the natural flow.
The Army Corps of Engineers, who built it, is not sure exactly why Lee wants it removed, nor is the Wilmington Star-News, concluding, "We're still puzzled by Lee's request, and we're not alone in our puzzlement."
I, myself, don't want it removed. I have walked on it many times.
--Old B-R'er
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