Currituck County has posted the final version of the Beach Management Plan prepared by Coastal Protection Engineering of North Carolina, Inc. The plan was commissioned to serve as a framework for the management, protection, and restoration of the County’s 22.6 miles of oceanfront beaches and dunes.
The Plan includes an in-depth evaluation of Coastal Hazards and Vulnerability (Section 2) and introduces several general management concepts that could be implemented by Currituck County (Section 3). Through the Feasibility Analysis (Section 4), four (4) separate Reaches along the Currituck County oceanfront were identified for active beach management.
Alternatives were developed for each of the Reaches and the feasibility of each of the Alternatives were weighed against each other to determine a recommended alternative for each. Following the public engagement conducted during development of the Plan, detailed in Section 5, the Beach Management Plan (Section 6) presents recommended actions for each of the four Reaches, as well as volumetric thresholds to be used with the County’s annual beach monitoring to identify areas that may require future actions. Additional recommendations for comprehensive beach management of the County oceanfront are provided in Section 7.
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