TOPSAIL BEACH – The latest ruling in a lawsuit against Topsail Beach punts the fight over the revocation of the town’s dune protection ordinance back to the town. This home amid an oceanfront stretch of properties at the southern end of Topsail Beach was permitted before changes to and ultimate…
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Hurricane Fran: A Storm to Remember
…Topsail Island and its three towns of North Topsail Beach, Surf City and Topsail Beach were ground zero. Fran’s high winds, storm surge and wave action damaged three-quarters of the structures on the island and destroyed 331 homes. Also destroyed were beloved landmarks, including popular fishing piers. Edwin Lore is…
Topsail Island towns float plan to reduce plastic pollution
…beaches are polystyrene beads, she said. Next month, the Coastal Federation is kicking off program where volunteers from North Topsail Beach in Onslow County down to Sunset Beach in Brunswick County will collect microplastics from the beach. Topsail Beach commissioners during their March 9 meeting discussed what they would like…
CRO Isn’t Lost, Now We’re Just CoastalReview.org
…and Frank Tursi, a former environmental reporter at the Winston-Salem Journal before taking the helm of the federation’s Coastkeeper program, created Coastal Review Online in 2012 as part of the federation’s website, nccoast.org, and launched the freestanding news website at coastalreview.org in 2015. It was, “an act of desperation,” as Frank…
All Topsail towns now prohibit Styrofoam in floating docks
…the Topsail Island Shoreline Protection Commission had advanced the proposed ordinance. “These docks break up and you get microplastics in the marshes. This would have a big impact in the future by eliminating the use of this product. Topsail Beach has adopted an ordinance to ban these types of floating…
Topsail Towns Discuss Florence’s Lessons
…the dune will fall with the collapsed sand. This allows the vegetation to stabilize at the dune’s base and grow, fortifying the dune. Pushing sand from the beach berm back to a damaged dune line isn’t necessarily the best idea, Rogers said. “The farther landward you can build your dunes…
CRO Brings Home 12 Press Awards
…feared that altering the dunes would weaken them, creating increased flooding threat to their homes. Talton’s series included the following: “Plan Pitched to Allow Homes, Protect Dunes” “Property Owners Divided Over Dune Rule” “Topsail Beach Repeals Dune Ordinance” “Judge Halts Topsail Beach Building Permits” “Judge Dismisses Topsail Dune Rule Case”…
30-Year-Old Law Provokes a Fight
…zone has been developed, according to Niemi. Then, there is North Topsail. “GAO identified the N. Topsail unit as one of the units that had experienced the most extensive development,” she wrote in an email. North Topsail’s Inclusion Development crowds the end of North Topsail Beach. Photo: Treasure Realtors The…
Surf City Addresses Deck Rules, Stirs Debate
…the size, use or other aspects of decks and accessways. Some beach towns, including Surf City’s neighbor to the south, Topsail Beach, follow the state’s laws. “The state regulations are quite clear in (Ocean Hazard Areas of Environmental Concern) on how they can be built,” said Linda Vescovi, Topsail Beach…
Surf City Eyes $25M Berm, Dune Project
…be based on the volume of sand dumped onto the roughly 6-mile stretch of beach in Surf City and the 3.9 mile-stretch in North Topsail Beach. The berm and dune line will extend to the southern edge of the Coastal Barrier Resources Act, or CBRA, Zone in North Topsail Beach….
North Topsail Beach empowers police to remove junk boats
…“almost identical ordinance” will be presented to the Topsail Beach Board of Commissioners during that board’s meeting that same day, according to Topsail Beach Town Manager Doug Shipley. The towns plan to pass costs associated with removing junked and abandoned boats to the vessel owner. Costs can be substantial depending…
Corps Funds Bogue, Topsail Sand Projects
…is the authorized area. The area does not include Topsail Beach. “Topsail Beach was not included in the funding bill as the town chose not to proceed with the federal project,” he said. The project on Topsail Island spans 9.9 miles of beach in Surf City and southern North Topsail…