The North Carolina Coastal Land Trust announced Wednesday that an additional 593 acres along the Newport River has been purchased from Weyerhaeuser Co. and transferred to North Carolina Coastal Federation for long-term management and restoration.
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Buxton folk relieved at Corps action, ask why not sooner?
Corps of Engineers officials told Hatteras Island residents this week that work is ongoing and a formal advisory board on cleanup at the petroleum-contaminated National Park Service beach could help information flow, but some here wonder, why did it take so long?
Corps sets Nov. 4 presentation on Buxton petroleum cleanup
The presentation set for 7-9 p.m. Nov. 4 at the Fessenden Center will include information regarding a restoration advisory board related to the cleanup at the former defense site.
Military releases environmental review of offshore training
A public comment period is open on the Department of the Navy’s draft supplemental environmental impact statement/overseas environmental impact statement for proposed continuation of offshore military training with sonar and explosives.
Work gets underway to pinpoint Buxton pollution source
Corps of Engineers contractors are to start work Friday near Old Lighthouse Beach in an intensified effort to find the source of intermittent fuel odors and oily soil first exposed more than a year ago by storm erosion.
Coast Guard Rear Adm. John ‘Jay’ Vann takes command
The change-of-command ceremony was Wednesday at Coast Guard Base Portsmouth.
Carteret Commissioner Chadwick cited for Atlantic fire
A permitted debris burn three weeks ago rekindled Sunday and scorched more than 500 acres in the Down East community, resulting in a $50 fine.
Pipe, liquids removed from contaminated Buxton Beach site
An Army Corps of Engineers contractor has extracted more than 70 feet of pipe and fluids at the former Navy base here, but soil sampling to determine next steps in the cleanup is still pending.
Superintendent vows ‘complete remediation’ of Buxton site
Superintendent David Hallac told attendees at a public meeting on the pollution and debris on Buxton Beach that Cape Hatteras National Seashore officials are working with the Corps and Navy on cleanup and funding options amid the bureaucratic logjam.
Corps says it will remove pipe, test soil at Buxton for fuel
The Corps of Engineers announced Monday that the Savanah District Formerly Used Defense Site, or FUDS, program will remove a pipe and sample soil from Buxton Beach to determine if it is the potential source of petroleum fumes and sheens.
Health advisory issued for contaminated Buxton beach
Officials said the contaminated soils were likely exposed by beach erosion near the former site of Naval Facility Cape Hatteras and Coast Guard Group Cape Hatteras in Buxton, from near 46285 Old Lighthouse Road to and including the first jetty.
Navy base’s wretched reminders not just petroleum in soils
Recently exposed petroleum contamination at the old site of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, where the Navy and later the Coast Guard formerly operated, is but one nasty aspect of the abandoned installations’ environmental legacy.
Navy lab funds Durham firm’s airborne power generator
Windlift has a five-year, $30 million contract with the Naval Research Laboratory to develop its autonomous tethered Navy and Marine Corps operations.
A special time to remember the 1896 E.S. Newman rescue
The Miami-based Coast Guard Cutter Richard Etheridge is named for the first African American to command a Life Saving Station, one known for the Oct. 11, 1896, rescue of all onboard the shipwrecked schooner.
Coastal Land Trust purchases 113 acres near landing field
A deal to protect a Marine Corps landing field near Pollocksville from encroachment will also save a large riverfront tract in Jones County from development.
Rear Adm. Shannon Gilreath assumes 5th District command
Coast Guard Rear Adm. Shannon Gilreath assumed command Wednesday of the Fifth District, which spans from the North Carolina-South Carolina border to New Jersey.
