Beach News
New Terminal Groin Law. North Carolina has a new law that under specified
conditions allows the use of terminal groins, reversing years of regulations and stat
utes against the use of such hard structures to protect inlets and beaches. According
to the Carteret Shore Protection Office, a terminal groin “ideally will impound only
enough sand to straighten the shoreline adjacent to an inlet.” The North Carolina
General Assembly passed and the Governor neither vetoed noi" signed the bill, so
it became law by default. The statute “allows a );otal of four terminal groins within
the State as long as the applicant meets a suite of requirements, e.g., preparation
of an Environmental Impact Statement, proof of financial assurance to cover post
construction monitoring and mitigation (if warranted), notification to adjacent
property owners, etc.” In a preliminary assessment of what the new law means
for Bogue Banks, the Shore Protection Office notes that Fort Macon already has
a terminal groin and says; .. we can now properly evaluate a terminal groin as a
design element for Bogue Inlet as part of the Master Plan, which is the long-term
(30-50 years) planning and permitting instrument for shore protection along Bogue
Banks. The main question that will likely need to be reconciled is if we do construct
a terminal groin, will we still need to realign the channel every 15-ish years? If yes,
then that will be one decision matrix. If no, then that’s another decision matrix.”
Hurricane Season. Hurricane season officially began June 1 and continues until
November 30. Although our coast has been spared major hurricanes in the past few
years, 2010, according to the Carteret County Shore Protection Office, produced 12
hurricanes, the second most on record—the record being 15 in a single year. The
July Shore Protection Office Newsletter continues to say, “.. .warmer than average sea
surface temperatures in the equatorial Atlantic and a waning La Nina are providing
enough fuel for cyclone development (warm water) and a favorable atmospheric
environment..to anticipate the likelihood of an “above normal” 2011 hurricane
season.
Hurricane/Storm Vocabulary. The Shore Protection Office provides the follow
ing helpful definitions:
Tropical cyclone - warm-core, atmospheric closed circulation rotating counter
clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
Tropical storm - a tropical cyclone with a maximum sustained surface wind
speed ranging from 39 mph to 73 mph using the U.S. 1-minute average.
Hurricane - a tropical cyclone with a maximum sustained surface wind speed
reaching 74 mph or more.
Saffir Simpson Scale - a scale including a 1 to 5 rating based upon wind speeds,
again utilizing the U.S. 1-minute average. A category 1 hurricane has winds ranging
from 74 to 95 miles per hour (mph), category 2 ranges from 96 to 100 mph, cat
egory 3 ranges from 111 to 130 mph, category 4 ranges from 131 to 155 mph, and a
category 5 hurricane has sustained winds exceeding 155 mph.
Major Hurricane - a hurricane reaching category 3 or higher on the Saffir
Simpson Scale. Interestingly, category 5 hurricanes very rarely make landfall while
maintaining their category 5 intensity - only three have ever made landfall in the
U.S. - the Labor Day hurricane (1935), Camille (1969), and Andrew (1992). Now to
account for some of the weather oddballs, we also need to include
Extratropical Storm - a cold-core atmospheric cyclone deriving its energy when
cold and warm air masses interact, not as part of the positive feedback loop identi
fied with tropical storms as warm, moist air rises causing continual heat exchange.
Unlike tropical storms, extratropical storms can have one or more fronts connected
to them, and can occur over land or ocean. Extratropical cyclones can have winds
ranging to levels associated with a tropical depression, or as strong as a hurricane
and examples include blizzards and noreasters, which often form in winter and
fall months off the mid-Atlantic and drift slowly along the north Atlantic seaboard
and eventually east. If it drifts back west towards land, it is called a retrograded
nor’easter.
Subtropical Storm - occurs if waters under an extratropical cyclone are warm,
followed by thunderstorms that gradually build inside the storm. The storm core
may subsequently and gradually go from cold to warm, and the storm will be
called subtropical.
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Dr. Christine Monks Joining
DownEast Medical August 1st
DownEast Medical- Associates, P,A, is pleased to announce the
association of Dr.. Christine Monks, a Board Cenified Internal
Medicine physician. Dr. Monks earned her Medical Degree at the New
York Medical College and completed iier Internship and Residenc)' in
Internal Medicine at the North Shore University Hospital. Dr. Monks'
experience includes being a Clinical Instructor in Medicine af Cornell
University Medical College, the New York University and the Hofstra
University School of Medicine along with her direct patient care
responsibilities in Internal Medicine. Most recently she has served as
full time faculty in the Department of Medicine at the Nonh Shore
University Hospital in Great Neck, New York. Carteret County is
indeed fortunate to have Dr. Monks joining our medical community.
She is very excited about her move to the area, her association with the
DownEast Medical physicians and staff and the relocation of her family
to the Crj'stal Coast.
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