Audubon Statement: NC Bills Would Weaken Coastal Protections for our Beaches

GARNER, North Carolina – Two payments filed within the North Carolina Normal Meeting–Senate Payments 1008 and 1009–would reverse a decades-old ban on hardened shoreline buildings on the North Carolina coast, clearing the best way for terminal groins, seawalls, and jetties. These buildings are costly and ineffective, redirecting or worsening the erosion issues they’re making an attempt to repair.

“North Carolina lawmakers have saved this coverage in place for generations as a result of these buildings 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 price range by transferring debt onto another person’s books.”

Media Contact: Brittany Salmons, brittany.salmons@audubon.org 

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