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Board backs request for $1.5 million state appropriation to shore 1 Cheese marine park
Summary
Dare County commissioners agreed to ask the legislature to appropriate $1.5 million to close a funding gap for a fully permitted living-shoreline project at the 1 Cheese Marine Industrial Park; the board authorized a pass-through arrangement and approved the request unanimously.
The Dare County Board of Commissioners voted May 4 to ask the North Carolina legislature for $1.5 million to cover a shortfall in funding for a fully permitted living-shoreline project at the 1 Cheese Marine Industrial Park.
Bob Peel outlined the problem: approximately 2,500 linear feet of shoreline facing Broad Creek is eroding, and at the southern end the loss is about 2 feet per year. "It's scary how we are losing shoreline," Peel said, and added that the project would install a…
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