Army Corps Wilmington District awards $7M contract to stabilize eroding Snow’s Cut

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Cape Romain Contractors, Inc. won a $7,015,897 contract for bank stabilization work along Snow’s Cut, a man-made channel separating Carolina Beach and Kure Beach from mainland New Hanover County, North Carolina. Built between 1929 and 1931 with an authorized width of 90 feet, the channel has eroded to between 400 and 600 feet wide, losing an average 0.86 acres of shoreline per year, with the northern bank retreating 1.6 linear feet annually and the southern bank 1.8 linear feet from 1953 to 2013.