Posted on June 20, 2025
Oak Island Town Council awarded $40 million worth of beach nourishment contracts at its June 10 meeting.
After failing to secure any sand in 2024 due to inflated dredging prices, council emptied its beach nourishment fund in a pair of motions involving the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) and an offshore site. Council purchased an additional 600,000 cubic yards of sand for $6.6 million from the ACE as part of its Wilmington Harbor Inner Ocean Bar dredging project that already had 700,000 cubic yards allocated for the east end of Oak Island. The board also approved a $33.4 million contract with Weeks Marine to dredge another 941,000 cubic yards from a site located 18 miles offshore for the rest of Oak Island’s beach.
