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What were the ships/barges off Carolina Beach in April doing?

Bulldozers work south of the Carolina Beach pier on the Carolina Beach Storm Damage Reduction Project on May 22, 2013.StarNews photo By Matt Born.

The ships offshore in Carolina Beach in April were part of a dredging and renourishment project. That project, which pumped about 900,000 cubic yards of sand onto Pleasure Island, concluded at the end of May.

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Why doesn’t the Carolina Beach renourishment project take sand from the boating channel in the inlet?

When will the sand at Wrightsville Beach be leveled off? There is a giant ridge there.

Date posted: June 11, 2013

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