Engineered Beach project

As the tropical storm/hurricane Hannah approaches, it lends more urgency to the BHI Village beach project. All of us will be checking out the beach erosion from the coming storms. If you develop information, by all means comment. I will not review the proposal in this version of the post since it was in the last. (I accidentally deleted the whole blog in my ignorance of computer matters) and it is to be found on the Village website.



Peter Ravella continues to work with Village Council and all of us who have given input. The Council did well in selecting Mr. Ravella to develop this project. He is a lawyer who has worked as a congressional aide and in several state and nonprofit agencies having to do with beach development and preservation. He is committed to having a united community in this effort. The first 4 charrettes have demonstrated a marvellous coming together of all parties.



All of the beaches and related erosion/accretion problems are included. The 4 groins North of the Marina entrance, dredging of Bald Head Creek and hopefully placing an entrance bulkhead at the creek mouth. Left undone, but pledged to be solved soon is the jetty extension at the marina entrance. Eric Olsen's report placed this as a high priority and stated this could be done with a rock structure which could curve to the South. This should alleviate the frequent shoaling of the entrance. and contribute to stability on West beach.



The cost of the added projects are minor compared to the overall effort. The Engineered Beach is now estimated at 16 million plus and the added projects bring it up to an estimated 17.5 million. The costs are to be amortised over 5 years. Web casts of the charrettes and details may be found on the Bald Head Village website.

Village election proposals

As I understand it,The meeting went well. It was stated that NC law prohibits term limits for council members. It was recommended that the mayor be elected by popular vote. I assume the Village Council will determine the proper mechanism.