. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. he Town of Topsail Beach suffered a tremendous amount of dune escarpment and loss of sand on our beaches. We had nine separate breaches in the dunes. Fortunately, the breaches occurred in the latter phases of the storm, which minimized flooding behind the dunes. Most of the dune walkovers, both private and public, were either destroyed or experienced heavy he legacy of Ophelia is going to be what appears to be record-setting soundside flooding. For a week prior to the storm making landfall, winds
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. he Town of Topsail Beach suffered a tremendous amount of dune escarpment and loss of sand on our beaches. We had nine separate breaches in the dunes. Fortunately, the breaches occurred in the latter phases of the storm, which minimized flooding behind the dunes. Most of the dune walkovers, both private and public, were either destroyed or experienced heavy he legacy of Ophelia is going to be what appears to be record-setting soundside flooding. For a week prior to the storm making landfall, winds pushed water out of the Pamlico Sound towards the Banks. The full moon was the Saturday after Opehlia and we knew the worst-case scenario would be if the storm moved slowly, then hit at high tide — and that's what happened. Considering that it was a slow storm that hit us at the worst possible time, the beaches took a very small hit. We had some spotty dune erosion. But the day after the storm you couldn't tell a hurricane had been there from looking at the beaches. We did lose some acreage on the sound side, which is hard to recover once it is lost because there is no sediment supply coming in to build it back up. Given the duration of the storm, overall we fared very Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original UNC Sea Grant College Program. [Raleigh, N. C. : UNC Sea Grant College Program]
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