[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, FUEL: "Understanding the issues at Buxton Beach [NC] – An FAQ Guide, Revisited"

[Lenny Siegel]

Understanding the issues at Buxton Beach – An FAQ Guide, Revisited

By Joy Crist
Island Free Press (NC)
May 13, 2024 

Back in March, the Island Free Press published an FAQ guide to explain the complicated background and current issues that were occurring at Buxton Beach.

Nearly two months later, a lot has changed, and there has been a mild increase in progress and a major increase in community involvement.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) and the Dare County Board of Commissioners will be hosting a public meeting on Tuesday, May 14, at 6:00 p.m. at the Fessenden Center in Buxton. 

While there have been public meetings hosted by the National Park Service and the newly formed Buxton Civic Association in the past few weeks, this is the first time that the Corps has presented an in-person opportunity to answer questions from the local community.

With that in mind, here’s an updated and scannable FAQ guide on the problem for newcomers, as well as what has changed in the past several months, and how the public can continue to help.

What’s the problem?

There have been multiple reports of petroleum smells, (and occasional sheens), reported on a roughly 500-yard stretch of beach at the end of Old Lighthouse Road since two offshore hurricanes – Franklin and Idalia – brushed the Outer Banks in early September 2023.

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For the entire article, see
https://islandfreepress.org/blog/understanding-the-issues-at-buxton-beach-an-faq-guide-revisited/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)