Title: Coast watch
Identifier: coastwatch00uncs_17 (find matches)
Year: 1979 (1970s)
Authors: UNC Sea Grant College Program
Subjects: Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology
Publisher: (Raleigh, N. C. : UNC Sea Grant College Program)
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina
Digitizing Sponsor: North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

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BY ANN GREEN wnish-green water from Roanoke Sound in Nags Head hits the heavily rip-rapped shoreline as North Carolina Sea Grant researcher Stan Riggs stands on a large concrete slab. With the help of a large megaphone, Riggs' voice booms across the estuarine shoreline while he points to a house perched on stilts in me sound. 'You see the house out in the sound," says Riggs to N.C. Coastal Geology Research Coopera- tive field trip participants. "Even though there is rip rap on the shore, it is still eroding here as indicated by the difference between the 1997 and 2003 photographs." "From 1932 to 73, the erosion rate was more than five feet a year," adds Riggs, an East Carolina University distinguished research professor. "Since then, the shoreline has been armored with broken concrete slabs, but the rip rap is at best a temporary fix and not a permanent solution."
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