The Town of Holden Beach contracted with Weeks Marine to place approximately 1,500,000 cubic yards of high quality beach sand on our oceanfront. The placement will begin at Blockade Runner and continue westward near the 800 block of Ocean Boulevard West. This is a distance of approximately four and a half miles. Completion should be in March.
The project is separate from the upcoming project of placing sand from the Lockwood Folly Inlet to Blockade Runner. This project is commonly referred to as the “widener project”. The project will be completed before Easter.
The west end of Holden Beach has grown over the recent decades. However, recently some loss of dunes has taken place. The west side of the Shallotte Inlet, which is the east end of Ocean Isle Beach, has been eroding.
Ocean Isle is building a terminal groin on their east end that is proving to be beyond successful. It is trapping drift sand and covering itself as fast as it can be built.
This picture shows the current status of the project.
