Price said another 15 workers are on the beach moving the pipes and grooming the sand with heavy equipment to create an initial berm about 100 feet wide.īecause it is accreting sand, the 400 block of Caswell Beach Road won’t receive additional sand from the project. McCaskill, a 230-foot dredge with a 30-inch cutter suction head that will eventually pipe 1.14-million cubic yards of sand onto Caswell Beach and part of Oak Island. With slightly more than a week of work done, the dredging and beach-grooming crews are in the vicinity of the 600 block of Caswell Beach Road with fresh sand dredged from the shipping channel.Įric Price, spokesman for Weeks Marine Inc., said last week Tuesday a mechanical problem on the dredge stalled operations for about 36 hours, but sand started flowing later in the day.Ībout 30 crew members are aboard the C.R.
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