…Federal Emergency Management Agency has notified the town that it will pay $16 million of the $42.7 million cost to cover sand losses attributed to Hurricane Matthew in 2016. But Nags Head will have to borrow the money upfront until FEMA provides a reimbursement after the project is finished. On…
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Nags Head To Wait On Nourishment Project
…replenishing the sand along the oceanfront that has been depleted since the last nourishment project in 2011 as well as from Hurricane Matthew, is being funded through municipal, county and federal sources. The town’s portion of the project — 2.3 million cubic yards — will cost approximately $22.2 million and…
Montreal Protocol prevented carbon sink losses: study
…residence times. That means the water doesn’t turn over as quickly, allowing for organic carbon to be converted back to atmospheric carbon dioxide. In 2019, Osburn published a paper in Geophysical Research Letters about this process by looking at how Hurricane Matthew affected carbon cycling in North Carolina. He estimated…
State’s Changes, Challenges to Continue
…North Carolina dodged the main storms of the 2017 hurricane season, but the Outer Banks experienced flooding and road overwashes when Hurricane Maria skirted the coast in late September. But, the state was affected by storms elsewhere when damage from Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Louisiana drained funds from the…
Currituck to receive $1M grant to raise 7 flood-prone homes
Aerial view of the flooding in Moyock during Hurricane Matthew. A flood-prone home in this Currituck County community is to be elevated. Photo: Currituck County Currituck County has been approved for a $1 million grant to elevate seven homes with a history of flooding caused by hurricanes and other storms….
Federation Takes Living Shorelines Online
…rather than having people recreate a wheel in their own state or own region,” she said. “I think there was some danger of that happening.” Simon said the academy welcomes additional input from the public, including research, literature, projects, examples and contact information. After the destruction of Hurricane Matthew, Miller…
New laws: Biogas, clean water funds in budget; rule tweaks
…by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Emergency Programs Division asserts that 32 of the 43 swine CAFOs closed through the voluntary buyout program between 1999 and 2007 would have likely flooded during Hurricane Matthew. “Providing state funding for installation of a technology that fails to address…
Homeownership assistance program reopens to applicants
North Carolina National Guard UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopters fly over flooded areas of eastern North Carolina after Hurricane Matthew. Photo: U.S. Army National Guard Capt. Michael Wilber The state has reopened a program launched in 2022 to provide funding for eligible first-time and first-generation homebuyers in federally designated storm-impacted counties. The…
Cooper Lays Out Spending Plan; GOP Pans It
…bonuses for educators, $86.5 million for disaster recovery and increases in unemployment benefits. The disaster funds are to provide the state match for federal disaster funding, including $15 million for Hurricane Matthew, $40 million for Hurricane Florence, $3.5 million for Hurricane Dorian, $4 million for Hurricane Isaias and $24 million…
House Set to Vote on Disaster Recovery Bill
…assess the damages that have occurred,” he said. The legislature moved quickly after 2016’s Hurricane Matthew, convening to pass legislation more than a month after the storm, but at the time the full range of damage assessments wasn’t ready and follow-up legislation was required. The new bill includes about $5…
Catching Waves to Save Historic Shoreline
…oyster reefs to stabilize and protect the actual shoreline from erosion and restore marine life habitat. Original plans to place wave attenuators along another section of shoreline were altered after Hurricane Matthew, which hit North Carolina nearly a year ago, cut about a 14- to 15-foot gap out of Dry’s…
Process for defining droughts in NC a matter of degrees
…the worst drought conditions didn’t emerge until September and October. Those events were also unique in that the coast had seen heavy rain and flooding from Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and from Hurricane Dorian in 2019, while parts of the mountains were in extreme drought. This is another way to…