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May 1st Sandbag Removal Deadline Approaches

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Posted: 2:46 PM Mar 27, 2008
Last Updated: 11:56 PM Mar 27, 2008

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North Carolina regulators are preparing to enforce a May 1 deadline to clear the state's beaches of sandbags that protect homes, hotels and roads.

The North Carolina Coastal Resources commission began a meeting in Kill Devil Hills on Thursday, prepared to hear complaints about the looming deadline. Beachfront property owners and local officials have repeatedly said the sandbag rule will doom some oceanfront homes.

The Star-News of Wilmington reported that several property owners have applied for extensions to keep the sandbags longer. Others have threatened legal action.

But state officials have also taken legal action to force the removal of sandbags.

The state first allowed sandbags on beaches as temporary erosion controls, but officials say many have become permanent fixtures.

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Posted by: Bobby Location: Winterville on Mar 28, 2008 at 09:38 AM
Tax payers shouldn't have to help pay for some rich person to live on the beach. Let the sand and the houses wash away. The outer banks are supposed to move naturally but can't due to the developement. No one forced them to buy on the "Front Line" and we shouldn't be forced to help them fight their battle with nature. Let them wash away and then their will be more room for every tax payer to enjoy the beach. Not just the rich.

Posted by: Cactus Location: Strabane,NC on Mar 27, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Of course if the global warming takes place Greenville will be the beach front, and you at the "now" beach will have nothing to worry about except you fishing net catching on a high rise condo.

Posted by: Tar Heel Location: NC on Mar 27, 2008 at 10:43 PM
When you build in a flood plain expect to be flooded. You choose to build on the beach area, you should be willing to protect your property.

Posted by: Cactus Location: Strabane,NC on Mar 27, 2008 at 08:59 PM
The state should not be responsible for your beach front property. The beaches are covered with condos, hotels, parking lots, streets, and beach houses to the extent that mother nature can no longer work her magic. The corp of engineers has for years been trying to control the Miss. river and the everglades and have failed. Just where will this replacement sand come.?

Posted by: David Location: Manteo on Mar 27, 2008 at 03:31 PM
This is the dumbest thing they could do at this point is remove these sandbags from these beaches. The NCCRC either doesnt understand the homes that will be put into jeopardy or they just dont care about those homes. I feel that the government needs to step in and replenish our beaches before Greenville becomes ocean front property. But they dont want to do anything to fix the problem, they just want to do things to create more problems. They attempted a year or so ago to make local residents pay a sand tax, which was nipped, because we feel it isnt our place to pay for something that is going to eventually affect the entire eastern half of North Carolina as well as the entire eastern seaboard of the United States. Just because we live on the front line, doesnt mean we should support inland counties that could possibly be in danger in the near future. We pay enough for the cost of living here, we shouldnt have to foot the bill for erosion as well.

Posted by: Mr. Bob on Mar 27, 2008 at 03:11 PM
This is good. The state should not be responsible for taking care worthless property bought by dimly people.

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