The Rodanthe beach nourishment project has been completed on Hatteras Island. The company is wrapping up by removing equipment and piping, this should take about a week then things will return to normal at the north end of the beach in Rodanthe. Close to 2 million cubic yards of sand was pumped onto shore to make the vulnerable site wider. The wider beach on the ocean side of Highway 12 at the “S-curves” will hopefully provide better protection to the highway during storms and hurricanes that occur on the Outer Banks. The project cost about $20 million and was payed for using Hurricane Sandy emergency relief funds.
