AdvertisementA one-time beach nourishment in the area would cost as much as $40 million, the report found — roughly double the amount a similar study found a decade earlier. Maintaining that beach over 30 years would cost more than $175 million. “It’s a big number and it’s a lot of money, and we don’t have that amount of money,” Outten in an interview. “We don’t have a method to fund a project of that scale.”The balance in Dare County’s beach nourishment fund, which comes from a tax on hotels and vacation rentals and must go toward multiple projects in the sprawling county, stood at $6 million earlier this year. Gusler has steered clear of the arguments about beach nourishment and who should fund them, but he also has little interest in a buyout.

Source: Washington Post May 15, 2023 10:50 UTC