Source: Jack Igelman, CAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS, 7/22/22


Editor’s note: This article is part 5 of the 5-part award-winning series Changing Tides, originally posted Sept. 17, 2021. The series is being reposted in July 2022. The series was made possible in part through support from the Pulitzer Center.

Waves, inland runoff and a record tidal surge from Hurricane Florence in September 2018 battered the Marine Corps Air Station at Cherry Point, whose northern perimeter borders the Neuse River southeast of New Bern. To reinforce the damaged riverbank, a Department of Defense program in late 2020 granted $1 million to support the planting of 2,100 linear feet of living shoreline.

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