The failure of several bulkheads along the Neuse River led MCAS Cherry Point to implement living shorelines rather than these hardened structures to stabilize the shoreline, reduce erosion, and provide crucial habitat.
In 2024, the Coastal Federation along with construction partners and the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores constructed a 4,214ft living shoreline focusing on high erosion areas identified by project team members: NC Aquarium at PKS staff, NC Parks staff, researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Beaufort Laboratory and East Carolina University, and Native Shorelines.
Fort Macon State Park’s northern soundside portion of the park has faced extreme erosion, in order to combat that the Park and the Federation have created a granite sill living shoreline.
Black Duck Island is a remote 68-acre dredge spoil island that is dealing with severe erosion. To help stop this a living shoreline is being installed.
The 52-acre Morris Landing Clean Water Preserve contains coastal shrub scrub and forest habitat, salt marsh, and tidal creek areas and has over 3,000 feet of shoreline along Stump Sound.…
Creating Oyster Habitat While Saving the Brown Pelicans’ Home Beacon Island in Pamlico Sound is one of only nine remaining nesting sites for brown pelicans in North Carolina. In 2014,…
