Source: Jack Igelman, CAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS, 12/14/20


The Marine Corps is partnering with state and national organizations to form the longest living shoreline rehabilitation project on the North Carolina coast.  The U.S. Department of Defense’s Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration, or REPI, program announced a $1 million award last month to fund the planting of 2,100 linear feet of living shoreline along the Neuse River bordering the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, 18 miles southeast of New Bern.

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