HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-03-12 PWBC BIMP Update Letter of Support - signedWILMINGTON-NEW HANOVER
PORT, WATERWAY & BEACH COMMISSION
March 12, 2025
Kathleen Riely, Executive Director
North Carolina Beach, Inlet and Waterway Association
P.O. Box 440
Wrightsville Beach, NC 28480
Re: Letter of Support for Updating the 2016 Beach & Inlet Management Plan (BIMP)
Dear Ms. Riely and Whom it May Concern,
The Wilmington -New Hanover County Port, Waterway, and Beach Commission
(PWBC) understands the importance of the North Carolina Beach & Inlet Management Plan
(BIMP), which was originally funded via House Bill 1840 and completed in 2009, and then
updated in 2016. The BIMP provides necessary scientific and socio-economic data of North
Carolina beaches, inlets, and management strategies.
North Carolina coastal communities have grown tremendously since the last update to the
BIMP in 2016. A regularly updated BIMP would provide a common resource for continued
coastal community stakeholder discussion that would continue to help guide decision making of
the State's 326 miles of ocean shoreline, barrier islands, and 19 active inlet complexes that
collectively generate over $4+ billion in annual revenue.
The Wilmington -New Hanover County PWBC, and its members, strongly support an
update to the BIMP in order to further enhance stakeholder discussion and decision -making
regarding North Carolina coastal communities.
In grateful appreciation,
Dennis Barbour, Chair, PWBC
Cc: New Hanover County Board of Commissioners
PWBC
Chris Coudriet, County Manager