10/25/2023 0 Comments Dredge on society meaningThe proposed framework flips the script and considers the impacts of redistributing remediated dredged sediment with nature-based solutions that support ecological and community wellness.ĭredging on and around Eagles Island in the service of agriculture, commerce, and transit has been achieved through both physical labor and mechanical means. This project grapples with the 3220-acre island’s centuries-long relationship with cut and fill for capital gain in a dynamic riverine system. The history of dredging on and around Eagles Island has ravaged its landscape in the service of economic priorities. Through a process that holistically assessed the island’s evolving history, this project grounds conceptual design solutions in a systems-based plan to make the vision a resilient reality. With threats of private development looming, this project provided the local coalition a compelling and comprehensive vision for the island that embodies the mission of conserving and managing the land’s natural and cultural assets and providing compatible educational and recreational activities.The project’s framework blends multiple levels of meaning to (re)imagine a future that acknowledges and builds upon cultural histories, resulting in a program that fosters climate-adaptive, ecologically rich, and biodiverse habitats using dredged material. Located 20 miles from the Atlantic coast and nestled between the two most rapidly growing counties in North Carolina, Eagles Island exemplifies the anthropogenic challenges and opportunities faced when analyzing and planning for sea level rise. For the past decade, a community coalition has fought to protect Eagles Island, the largest island in a deltaic archipelago at the confluence of the Cape Fear and Northeast Cape Fear Rivers, as a recreational amenity.
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