I can't get these costs straight in my head so I'm posting again (Sand addition ...):
... $3.1 million nourishment project will shore up a roughly 1-mile stretch of erosion-prone beach, starting near the town's pier.
Repeat: $3 million per mile.
And do beach towns really need federal money to get it done?
Topsail Beach officials, however, aren't willing to risk the uncertainty over federal dollars to protect their threatened oceanfront homes. The Pender County town is pushing ahead with a $10 million emergency nourishment project that would be funded with local and state funds.
Although Topsail Beach has a federal project in the pipeline, Mayor Butch Parrish said his town can't afford to wait four or more years for something that may never be funded by Washington.
He said erosion has left the town's northern and southern ends in fragile condition, with dune lines washed away dangerously close to some homes.
