The Corps of Engineers is hosting a public information meeting next week on Surf City’s long-awaited federal beach nourishment project.
Corps officials will discuss findings of the draft General Reevaluation Report and Environmental Assessment for the town’s coastal storm risk management project, one that entails significantly injecting the amount on the town’s ocean shoreline by constructing a new wider and taller dune.
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The project will be the largest beach nourishment project to have been accomplished on the East Coast, according to the town’s website. Initial construction is expected to take 16 months, during which time an estimated 7.9 million cubic yards of sand is anticipated to be injected onto the town’s nearly 6-mile beach.
The draft report was released about two years after North Topsail Beach, the town just north of Surf City on Topsail Island, withdrew from what had been a dune and beach nourishment partnership in July 2021.
North Topsail Beach officials at the time said they pulled out of the partnership because of rising project costs.
The public meeting is scheduled for 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24, in the Surf City Municipal Complex, 214 W. Florence Way, Hampstead.
Corps personnel will be available to answer questions and receive comments at the meeting.
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The report and assessment are available online. A 30-day public comment period on those documents closes Oct. 4.
Once the comment period ends, the Corps will include the public comments into a final report. The goal of the Corps is to complete the study process with a Chief of Engineers Report being signed off in May 2025, according to a release.
