And, I am not talking about Civil War-era sandbags.
Long-left sandbags are also a problem at North Topsail Beach, further up the North Carolina coast. And, these are not the small, temporary sandbags we so often see when rivers flood, but rather huge ones.
The coquina by Fort fisher is part of the Fort Fisher Outcrop natural Area and is just north of the Riggings condo complex. I mentioned in an earlier post that it was the removal of part of the coquina outcrop back in the 1930s to help build US Highway 421 which led ti the massive beach erosion that took so much of Fort Fisher.
The Army Corps of Engineers has a beach nourishment project which will end 1,500 feet north of the Riggings. However, no part of the coquina outcrop will be buried.
--Old B-R'er
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