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Expert to offer thoughts on beach nourishment.
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Daily News (Jacksonville, NC)
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August 13, 2007
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Byline: Lindell Kay
Aug. 13--NORTH TOPSAIL BEACH -- Considered a beach erosion expert by some and a beach nourishment opponent by others, retired Duke University professor Orrin Pilkey will be speaking in North Topsail Beach on Tuesday.
"I am excited at the opportunity to present my view of beach nourishment to the people of North Topsail Beach," Pilkey said Friday. "This is a community where beach nourishment was apparently voted down, but the administration wants to proceed with it anyway."
Pilkey said what was happening in North Topsail Beach is a microcosm of what is happening everywhere.
"All of the nation's barrier islands are eroding," he said. "What ...
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