Repairs to Begin on Ocracoke Dunes

A $321,315 contract was awarded to Carolina Marine Structures Inc. last month for the repair of a dune along N.C. 12 on Ocracoke Island that was also damaged during the storms in early October.

Work will begin this weekend and is expected to be complete by February 2016, weather permitting. 

During this project, crews are bringing in sand from a dredge spoil site immediately adjacent to the Hatteras/Ocracoke ferry terminal and transferring the sand a few miles south to the site of the dune that was washed out. Occasional lane closures will be in place while crews move equipment in and out of the construction site. Crews are timing the lane closures around the schedule of ferry arrivals so as to have as minimal impact to traffic as possible.  

In other NCDOT news, Rte. 12 in Kitty Hawk is now open.

Crews earlier this afternoon opened a section of N.C. 12/Beach Road in Kitty Hawk to traffic between Kitty Hawk Road and Lillian Street. The road was closed in early October due to flooding and subsequent damage caused by the impacts of Hurricane Joaquin and a neighboring storm system.

Repairs began Tuesday, Oct. 27, on a project to reconstruct the damaged stretch of N.C. 12/Beach Road and rebuild the dune at this location using sandbags, as well as install new sand fencing. A $412,933 contract was awarded to Waff Contracting Inc. of Edenton for the work. 

The new dune connects to an existing sandbag dune constructed earlier this summer just south of this location. On the northern end, it connects to a dune 200 feet to the north that was constructed using sandbags in 2003 and extended in 2004 following Hurricane Isabel. This allows for a continuous line of sandbags protecting N.C. 12 in this area. The newly constructed dune system will be planted with sea grass starting next week 

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