Avon Beach Nourishment Project Featured on NBC’s Today Show

April 26, 2021 | Local News | By: Joy Crist | 3
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The proposed Avon Beach Nourishment project was featured on NBC’s Today show on Monday morning, April 26, in a roughly four-minute segment that included an interview with Dare County Manager, Bobby Outten.

In the segment, Outten explained the background of the proposed $11 million dollar beach nourishment plan and its subsequent tax for Avon residents, while Rob Young, a geologist who studies shorelines at Western Carolina University, weighed in on the benefits of the nourishment funding plan and the greater problems with shoreline erosion nationwide.

This is not the first time that the proposed Avon Beach Nourishment project has been picked up by national media outlets, as the project was also the topic of a lengthy New York Times article that was posted on March 14, 2021.

The full video story that was aired on the Today show on Monday can be viewed via their website at https://www.today.com/video/north-carolina-beach-town-s-plan-to-save-shoreline-110855237949.

 

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  1. The problem with this coverage is that it is not accurate. The nourishment project is because people do not like occasional flooding. We live on an island where this type of flooding while not convenient was normal and expected. When the dunes went up, to stop this, it went away. As the dunes are eroded occasional flooding has come back. This project is a giveaway to oceanfront/oceanside homeowners who will throw a pittance into the pot in exchange for sand and maintaining their oceanfront views and revenues. I have no problem with nourishment, but the rest of us who do not get near the benefit the oceanfront and oceanside homeowner’s get without putting any “skin in the game” is a handout. They are being rewarded for making the bad decision to purchase oceanfront real estate.

    I wonder if the homeowner that is one or two back from the oceanfront can sue the county for not letting nature take its course and have the oceanfront home in front of them fall, which would move them to the front.

  2. Did you notice that Southern Shores didn’t move forward w/ MSD? This is b/c the commissioners couldn’t prove there was demand due to a smart population of owners in SS who knew the legal criteria needed to establish the MSD and that all they had to do was to take a stand against beach nourishment. Those 98+ homeowners in Avon w/ the good intentions to look for a compromise from the BOC instead took a stand against the tax. The mean truth that is that the emails sent to the BOC againat the tax approach were exploited and used by the board to further justify this crazy tax. Reasoning w/ the BOC was always fultile effort. They never wanted to listen to Avon property owners. They were looking for new permanent revenue sources for Dare. They used the desires a very tiny non majority voice (only 22 people) to establish the MSD to extract more Dare revenue directly from Avon. Think long term….establishing this MSD was never about nourishment in Avon. That project has always been a guise. Outtan (Sheriff of Nottigham) needs to go.

  3. “Beach nourishment” is a lost cause. And while it’s nice for G Surf_492547 to say “oh, its all just normal and its fine if you let it run its course and accept the flooding” or for Michelle Taylor_85733 to just complain about taxes, in the end it’s simple. The OBX is just a sandbar out in the ocean. Sandbars don’t stand still. They are ephemeral things. They are good for pitching a tent for a minute, not trying to lay down permanent roots in the form of houses and certainly not roads and such.

    I suppose that just leaves me closer to G Surf than Michelle (who seems to want it both ways). But either way – pump all the sand you want onto the island. We all know it takes just one good storm to take it all away. And I hate to bring it up, and I won’t say why, but SEA LEVELS ARE RISING…so even the “overwash theory of natural maintenance” is dead. Pretty soon, if you want to surf, you’ll be looking for a place in Stumpy Point. That little sand bar out in the ocean will be just a little forgotten and unnoticed mild swell maker.

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  1. The problem with this coverage is that it is not accurate. The nourishment project is because people do not like occasional flooding. We live on an island where this type of flooding while not convenient was normal and expected. When the dunes went up, to stop this, it went away. As the dunes are eroded occasional flooding has come back. This project is a giveaway to oceanfront/oceanside homeowners who will throw a pittance into the pot in exchange for sand and maintaining their oceanfront views and revenues. I have no problem with nourishment, but the rest of us who do not get near the benefit the oceanfront and oceanside homeowner’s get without putting any “skin in the game” is a handout. They are being rewarded for making the bad decision to purchase oceanfront real estate.

    I wonder if the homeowner that is one or two back from the oceanfront can sue the county for not letting nature take its course and have the oceanfront home in front of them fall, which would move them to the front.

  2. Did you notice that Southern Shores didn’t move forward w/ MSD? This is b/c the commissioners couldn’t prove there was demand due to a smart population of owners in SS who knew the legal criteria needed to establish the MSD and that all they had to do was to take a stand against beach nourishment. Those 98+ homeowners in Avon w/ the good intentions to look for a compromise from the BOC instead took a stand against the tax. The mean truth that is that the emails sent to the BOC againat the tax approach were exploited and used by the board to further justify this crazy tax. Reasoning w/ the BOC was always fultile effort. They never wanted to listen to Avon property owners. They were looking for new permanent revenue sources for Dare. They used the desires a very tiny non majority voice (only 22 people) to establish the MSD to extract more Dare revenue directly from Avon. Think long term….establishing this MSD was never about nourishment in Avon. That project has always been a guise. Outtan (Sheriff of Nottigham) needs to go.

  3. “Beach nourishment” is a lost cause. And while it’s nice for G Surf_492547 to say “oh, its all just normal and its fine if you let it run its course and accept the flooding” or for Michelle Taylor_85733 to just complain about taxes, in the end it’s simple. The OBX is just a sandbar out in the ocean. Sandbars don’t stand still. They are ephemeral things. They are good for pitching a tent for a minute, not trying to lay down permanent roots in the form of houses and certainly not roads and such.

    I suppose that just leaves me closer to G Surf than Michelle (who seems to want it both ways). But either way – pump all the sand you want onto the island. We all know it takes just one good storm to take it all away. And I hate to bring it up, and I won’t say why, but SEA LEVELS ARE RISING…so even the “overwash theory of natural maintenance” is dead. Pretty soon, if you want to surf, you’ll be looking for a place in Stumpy Point. That little sand bar out in the ocean will be just a little forgotten and unnoticed mild swell maker.

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