July 13 2016
Agenda
13 July 2016, 4:00 PM
New Hanover County (NHC), Government Center
Finance Conference Room #500
4:00 Call to Order
Welcome/Introductions
Request approval of the June meeting minutes (emailed 10 June 2016).
Staff will present the pre-application power point presentation of the Inshore Dredge Material
Management Site (IDMMS) permitting effort.
Current Efforts:
NHC’s Wrightsville Beach (WB) Coastal Storm Damage Reduction (CSDR) Project
NHC provided Biological Opinion (BO) comments to the US Army Corps of Engineers
(USACE) awaiting USACE and US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) final narratives.
Mason Inlet Relocation Project (MIRP)
2016 Spring Report is being drafted.
Inlet crossing maintenance event being initiated.
Shallow Draft Inlet (SDI-5) Permitting
Initiating the permit modification (IDMMS).
Carolina Beach CSDR Project, Beach Renourishment Evaluation Report (BRER).
Potential options within the anticipated Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of
2016 are being considered.
Fall is the timeline anticipated for WRDA16.
Risk Reduction (non-federal BRER requirement) and Refined Modeling (all CSDRs)
Risk Reduction DRAFT Report anticipated in mid-summer 2016.
Refined Modeling Report for WB anticipated in late fall 2016.
WB CSDR Economic Update
USACE’s stakeholder meeting to review economic assessments to be scheduled.
FY16 CB/KB CSDR Maintenance Events
Final accounting is ongoing.
Carolina Beach Inlet
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A Merritt five-day maintenance event is tentatively scheduled to start July 10 or 11.
The USACE is to award an AIWW crossing contract in late summer.
Shoreline Mapping
The 2016 field data collection is complete; data reduction is in process.
Outreach: R. Smith
Public Comment:
Adjourn