THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, February 21, 1996 TAG: 9602210618
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B5 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
DATELINE: OUTER BANKS LENGTH: Short : 30 lines
Dredge operators will have until midnight Feb. 29 to complete four channel clearing projects on the Outer Banks. Officials with the state Department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources granted an extension to a dredging permit to allow workers to try to complete the projects, which Dare County commissioners authorized last week.
The original deadline for clearing the channels was Feb. 15.
Workers plan to clear the canal at Manns Harbor Ferry Dock Road, the boat ramp canal at the Kitty Hawk Railway, the channel leading into A&B Seafood on Colington Island and the nearby channel into the old Nunemaker Fish Company, also on Colington Island.
The North Carolina Division of Water Resources appropriated $177,840 in state money for those projects.
During the county Board of Commissioners emergency meeting Wednesday, commissioners unanimously voted to use $44,460 of the county's money to finance the balance of the funds needed for those dredging projects.
Robert J. Stewart Jr., an engineer who is helping coordinate the dredging projects, said clearing all four channels will take about three weeks.
Dredging at A&B Seafood and Manns Harbor was scheduled to begin today. by CNB