Living Shoreline Project

The Town has partnered with the NC Coastal Federation to build a living shoreline - basically an oyster shell reef - near the entrance to Mary's Creek. Many volunteers have worked to bag oysters for this project. You can see the bags in Fire Station 1's parking lot.

The minutes for the October 1st Council meeting state that "Hiram Marziano, Interim Town Administrator advised that the Living Shoreline Project has been postponed as CAMA is now requiring the Town to get a CAMA major permit instead of the minor permit already approved due to amendments made to the project scope. The Town did receive an extension for the grant and construction is expected to begin in January 2019."

UPDATE: 1/28/2019

You can read about the shoreline project in the Brunswick Beacon.

UPDATE: 1/22/2019

Last Thursday, 1/17/2019, this project moved forward. Lisa Anglin, Town Clerk, sent this message to the "info list" subscribers:

(You can subscribe to the "info list" by going to the Town home page. The signup block is at the bottom of the left-hand column.)

Hi Everyone:

Today, Coastal Federation members, Town Staff and 85 - 100 volunteers constructed a 60-foot oyster reef along the shoreline of the Sunset Beach Town Park. Volunteers placed the bags along the shoreline at low tide to build one of the oyster reefs for the living shoreline project. The reef, along with additional oyster dome reefs and salt marsh plantings, will form a living shoreline to help protect the park from erosion and create valuable habitat.

Several television stations were present today and hopefully, the project will be covered on WECT-TV 6 and WWAY TV-3 during their broadcast at 5 PM, 6 PM and/or 11:00 PM. Numerous newspaper and magazine reporters were also present today and we anticipate articles covering our project in their publications.

Mayor Weiss remarked "how great it was that the event brought together the Coastal Federation, Town staff, some Council members, an area high school, and dozens of community volunteers for such an important project".

Please stop by the Town Park and see the Living Shoreline for yourself.

Sincerely,

Lisa H. Anglin

Town Clerk