GARNER, North Carolina – Two payments filed within the North Carolina Basic Meeting–Senate Payments 1008 and 1009–would reverse a decades-old ban on hardened shoreline constructions on the North Carolina coast, clearing the best way for terminal groins, seawalls, and jetties. These constructions are costly and ineffective, redirecting or worsening the erosion issues they’re making an attempt to repair.
Assertion from Zach Wallace, Audubon North Carolina Coverage Director:
“North Carolina lawmakers have saved this coverage in place for generations as a result of these constructions don’t work. They rob sand from different components of the seashore, making erosion worse and placing habitat and coastal communities at larger danger. It’s like balancing a finances by shifting debt onto another person’s books.”
Media Contact: Brittany Salmons, brittany.salmons@audubon.org
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