Shifting Sands

As sea levels rise, some coastal communities have looked to beach nourishment as a way to temporarily halt erosion along the shore. The process dredges sand from offshore to rebuild a beach and maintain a shoreline, and has taken place along the North Carolina coast 265 times over nearly a century. Host Dave DeWitt talks with Rob Young, director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University, about the environmental and financial cost of beach nourishment and the future of the North Carolina coastline.