Town of Pine Knoll Shores issued the following announcement on Sep 24.
At 8:30AM on Wednesday 29 September we will have an online briefing regarding a proposed project to place a living shoreline along the sound-front of PKS. This briefing will take 1 hour and will be followed by a tour of the recently completed living shoreline just installed at Veteran’s Park behind Town Hall. I'm sorry for the early meeting: we are taking advantage of the tide for the park visit.
Background: the Town was recently made aware of a grant program from FEMA to fund projects intended to help make communities more resilient to nature. On 8 September the Board of Commissioners authorized staff to submit a Letter of Interest (LOI) concerning this grant to the NC Department of Public Safety, the state agency administering the grant. The LOI will outline a proposal for a $3.2M project, with a 75% FEMA/25% non-federal cost share. For further information on the grant and what was presented to the Board see the memo at https://tinyurl.com/f9auaapn (go to page 61 of the agenda packet---the item is titled “Building Resilient Infrastructure & Communities (BRIC) Grant”).
For an article on the effectiveness of living shorelines as protection during storms pls see https://www.nccoast.org/.../living-shorelines.../. The project would involve installation of a living shoreline in the public trust waters of Bogue Sound, about 30 feet north of existing shorelines/seawalls. Installation would be on a voluntary basis. See the photo of a living shoreline installed in PKS nearly 20 years ago.
The presentation on 29 Sept will consist of a briefing on programmatics by myself (program objectives, costs, timelines, obligations to the Town, and cost share options for the non-federal share), followed by a briefing by Dr. Lexia Weaver of the NC Coastal Federation on the actual configuration of the proposed shoreline, the effectiveness of this against wave energy and the reduction of erosion, and the natural benefits of a living shoreline. After we speak we’ll open up to Q&A.
At 9:30AM we’ll end the briefing and take a 15 minute break. Anyone interested can then come to the flagpole behind Town Hall. We’ll walk down the Veterans Park trail and Dr Weaver will then show and discuss the shoreline installed there this past spring.
Town Clark Charlie Rocci will put out an email with the webinar information.
Original source can be found here.
Source: Town of Pine Knoll Shores
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