The Island Gets Nearly $4 Million in Federal Stimulus For Sewer & Stormwater Upgrades!
Well President Obama hasn’t forgot about Pleasure Island, this comes as a shock as there was 190 applications for these federal grants and Carolina Beach & Kure Beach were selected by state Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Carolina Beach will receive $3.3 million – the most of any community in the state to build two storm water ponds to help with runoff in the Wilmington Beach area and replace old sewer lines along U.S. 421 through its busy downtown core. Kure Beach was awarded nearly $620,000 to replace approximately 6,500 feet of sewer line along U.S. 421 around its central business district.
Well what dose this mean for us? the surfers? Well new sewer lines will help keep the sewage in the pipe during extreme high tides and heavy rain falls and will help keep out beaches free of raw overflowing sewage that happens from time to time when to much water enters the system from run off and cracks in the old sewer pipes.
KB Outfall After A Heavy Rain Fall
Carolina beach is also teaming up with Kure Beach to build two new storm water holding ponds on the back side of the island to help contain the run off in the Wilmington beach are that follows down to kure beach and is dumped on the beach with poses very high health hazards and can leave beaches trashed with garbage, oil and gas run off from the roads, pet waste, and harsh fertilizer chemical’s. Two five-acre ponds will be built in the undeveloped blast buffer zone run by the Military Ocean Terminal at Sunny Point on the river side of Pleasure Island, Where the water will be able to drain right in the the cape fear after it passes through the lagoon’s.
Don't you enjoy surfing & swimming in human waste?
But the infrastructure work could create a traffic nightmare, since it will be taking place at the height of the summer tourism season to meet requirements of the stimulus bill, which states that projects must be “shovel ready” and started within weeks of getting the grants. But who cares i want a clean beach and im sure people visiting will enjoy the same.
