Posted on January 29, 2026
Municipalities on the Cape Fear coast including Southport and Bald Head Island got a small beacon of hope last week that their efforts to stop a widening project of the Wilmington Harbor are getting the attention of state officials.
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Coastal Management (DCM) announced that the Army Corps of Engineers has asked DCM to pause its review of the Corps’ Consistency Determination for the proposed Wilmington Harbor Federal Channel Deepening Project. A press release from DCM said the pause will give the entities involved time to review issues that have arisen.
