Septic tanks and bird droppings contribute to the stew of pollutants that pour into the ocean during and after storms on the Outer Banks, but measures to remediate the toxic flow could prove to be costly and politically difficult. A draft report on a stormwater pilot project almost a decade in the making details episodic […]
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Although Hurricane Joaquin looked a lot less threatening to the North Carolina coast as of late Thursday afternoon, Outer Banks officials remain concerned nonetheless about potentially dangerous soundside flooding, torrential rainfall, and punishing ocean surf as the storm moves north off the coast over the weekend. An evacuation order was issued for Ocracoke Island at […]
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Island residents will barely have a breather between storms, as a nasty cold front is about to park itself off the coast Thursday night through the weekend, bringing more heavy rain and pounding surf. Meanwhile, Hurricane Joaquin is barreling up the coast towards the Outer Banks, and although it is still uncertain what its track […]
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Property owners in Rodanthe-Waves-Salvo now have a proposed zoning map to consider that gives the community wide berth in deciding what uses should be allowed or not. “This map is driven by community input,” Dare County Planning Director Donna Creef told residents at a packed meeting Thursday night, Sept. 24, at the Community Building in […]
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Hatteras islanders will have a chance to weigh-in next week on the long-sought plan to widen the beach in Buxton, which is currently out for public review. A meeting is scheduled on Thursday, Oct. 1, from 6 until 7 p.m. at the Fessenden Center, when people will have an opportunity to ask questions and view […]
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Finding remedies for clogged channels in Hatteras Inlet has been moving along at a typical bureaucratic crawl, spurring frustrated members of the Dare County Oregon Inlet and Waterways Commission to investigate whether dredging the “cut-through” area near Ocracoke could be a faster way to provide ocean passage for charter vessels. “We have the permits to […]
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North winds and a moon tide have recently improved passage through Hatteras Inlet, allowing charter boats to continue to inch their way to and from the ocean. But it is still unclear what the best short-term solution will be to the worsening navigational problems in the waterway. “We’re turning over every rock we can,” said […]
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Worsening conditions in Hatteras Inlet spurred more than 100 people, mostly watermen, to come out on a rainy night on Tuesday to attend a meeting in Hatteras village to toss around possible remedies to intractable shoaling in the channel. In recent weeks, sand has choked a section of the channel between the Hatteras Inlet gorge […]
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The second season of National Geographic’s “Wicked Tuna:Outer Banks” premiered last week featuring some of the same rough men as last year and some of the same rough conditions. But what that first episode was missing is this season’s most interesting addition — the show’s first-ever all women crew. On Sunday’s upcoming episode, Captain Tami […]
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After learning that an unexpected $1 million was available in a state dredging fund, Dare County didn’t waste time getting first in line to claim it for Oregon Inlet. At a special meeting on Thursday, the Dare County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved transferring $1 million in matching funds from the county general fund to […]
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