Bulkheads lead to salt marsh erosion, total loss: Study

Bulkheads lead to salt marsh erosion, total loss: Study

The study area maps show Bogue Sound, Back Sound, Newport River, and North River in Carteret County. Symbols represent location and concentration of natural marsh controls and bulkhead sites. Researchers found in a recent study that, over the long term, bulkhead structures have a “significant negative effect” on marsh habitat size. Using high-resolution imagery from 1981 of Carteret County’s Bogue and Back sounds and Newport and North rivers, th…