Tell Your Senator to Protect North Carolina Coasts from Coastal Armoring!
North Carolina has long acknowledged that hardened structures are not appropriate solutions to coastal erosion along the state’s sandy beaches. In 2003, North Carolina banned hardened structures to protect the state’s coastlines from accelerated coastal erosion through the Coastal Area Management Act (CAMA). Hard structures such as seawalls, jetties, and terminal groins alter natural shoreline processes.
The ban passed because hard structures cause increased erosion for neighboring beaches. In other words, hard structures move coastal erosion problems elsewhere, they do not solve them.
In April 2026, Senate Bill 1009 was introduced to repeal this ban. As erosion issues accelerate in areas like the Outer Banks, and across the state, it is imperative that this ban stays in place.
Surfrider is opposed to hard armoring of sandy beaches everywhere. Hard structures do not offer long-term solutions for communities. Surfrider’s North Carolina network seeks to protect North Carolina’s coastlines and communities by advocating to keep the state’s hardened structures ban intact. North Carolina’s pristine barrier islands and sandy shores exist because of the current ban on hard structures, one of the strongest and most protective of beach ecosystems in the nation. S1009 is a major step in the wrong direction.
Help protect North Carolina beaches and communities by urging your senators to oppose S1009!
The ban passed because hard structures cause increased erosion for neighboring beaches. In other words, hard structures move coastal erosion problems elsewhere, they do not solve them.
In April 2026, Senate Bill 1009 was introduced to repeal this ban. As erosion issues accelerate in areas like the Outer Banks, and across the state, it is imperative that this ban stays in place.
Surfrider is opposed to hard armoring of sandy beaches everywhere. Hard structures do not offer long-term solutions for communities. Surfrider’s North Carolina network seeks to protect North Carolina’s coastlines and communities by advocating to keep the state’s hardened structures ban intact. North Carolina’s pristine barrier islands and sandy shores exist because of the current ban on hard structures, one of the strongest and most protective of beach ecosystems in the nation. S1009 is a major step in the wrong direction.
Help protect North Carolina beaches and communities by urging your senators to oppose S1009!
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Tell Your Senator to Protect North Carolina Coasts from Coastal Armoring!
North Carolina has long acknowledged that hardened structures are not appropriate solutions to coastal erosion along the state’s sandy beaches. In 2003, North Carolina banned hardened structures to protect the state’s coastlines from accelerated coastal erosion through the Coastal Area Management Act (CAMA). Hard structures such as seawalls, jetties, and terminal groins alter natural shoreline processes.
The ban passed because hard structures cause increased erosion for neighboring beaches. In other words, hard structures move coastal erosion problems elsewhere, they do not solve them.
In April 2026, Senate Bill 1009 was introduced to repeal this ban. As erosion issues accelerate in areas like the Outer Banks, and across the state, it is imperative that this ban stays in place.
Surfrider is opposed to hard armoring of sandy beaches everywhere. Hard structures do not offer long-term solutions for communities. Surfrider’s North Carolina network seeks to protect North Carolina’s coastlines and communities by advocating to keep the state’s hardened structures ban intact. North Carolina’s pristine barrier islands and sandy shores exist because of the current ban on hard structures, one of the strongest and most protective of beach ecosystems in the nation. S1009 is a major step in the wrong direction.
Help protect North Carolina beaches and communities by urging your senators to oppose S1009!
The ban passed because hard structures cause increased erosion for neighboring beaches. In other words, hard structures move coastal erosion problems elsewhere, they do not solve them.
In April 2026, Senate Bill 1009 was introduced to repeal this ban. As erosion issues accelerate in areas like the Outer Banks, and across the state, it is imperative that this ban stays in place.
Surfrider is opposed to hard armoring of sandy beaches everywhere. Hard structures do not offer long-term solutions for communities. Surfrider’s North Carolina network seeks to protect North Carolina’s coastlines and communities by advocating to keep the state’s hardened structures ban intact. North Carolina’s pristine barrier islands and sandy shores exist because of the current ban on hard structures, one of the strongest and most protective of beach ecosystems in the nation. S1009 is a major step in the wrong direction.
Help protect North Carolina beaches and communities by urging your senators to oppose S1009!
