The world according to me....

Here is a mid-construction photo of the beach nourishment project currently in progress at Atlantic Beach, NC. This is the outlet point of the big pipe that is carrying material from Brandt Island where dredged material has been stored for several years. There is some mud and silt mixed in with the sand, making the new material darker and muddier than the sand that was already on the beach (which itself was placed there nearly 10 years ago during a similar nourishment project). When I took this photo earlier this week, the nourishment work was temporarily halted; usually there is a big plume of material flowing out of this pipe. Daily updates of the progress of the work and the project in general are available here, and I will continue to post more photos as time goes by.