Audubon Statement: NC Bills Would Weaken Coastal Protections for our Beaches

GARNER, North Carolina – Two bills filed in the North Carolina General Assembly--Senate Bills 1008 and 1009--would reverse a decades-old ban on hardened shoreline structures on the North Carolina coast, clearing the way for terminal groins, seawalls, and jetties. These structures are expensive and ineffective, redirecting or worsening the erosion problems they are attempting to fix.

"North Carolina lawmakers have kept this policy in place for generations because these structures don’t work. They rob sand from other parts of the beach, making erosion worse and putting habitat and coastal communities at greater risk. It’s like balancing a budget by moving debt onto someone else’s books."

Media Contact: Brittany Salmons, brittany.salmons@audubon.org 

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Audubon North Carolina, a state program of the National Audubon Society, has offices in Durham, Boone, Corolla, and Wilmington. Learn more at nc.audubon.org and on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow. A nonprofit conservation organization since 1905, Audubon works throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation. Learn more at www.audubon.org and on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @audubonsociety.