This Press Release was issued by Stan Jarusinski, Chairman of the Save Our Inlets Town
Meeting.. You can contact me at 910 326 2392, Cell 910 340 0813.
seajay@ec.rr.com
PRESS RELEASE-SWANSBORO, N. C. , FEBRUARY 28, 2005
The President’s Office of the Budget did not have ample funding in its 2005 budget to
dredge all the shallow inlets of N.C. for the entire year. Only 2 inlets, Topsail and New
River received funding to dredge them each once in 2005, which will make them
navigable for about 2 months. There is NO funding provided in the 2006 budget to
dredge the N. C. shallow draft inlets next year. If funding is provided in the 2006
budget, sidecast dredging can start in 10/05. Emergency funding is needed now.
The “Save Bogue Inlet” Town Meeting sponsored by the Onslow Bay Saltwater Fishing
Club and the Tideland News has expanded its base to include all the endangered Inlets
between Bogue Inlet and Carolina Beach Inlet that are in dire need of dredging funds for
2005 and beyond. It is now a “Save Our Inlets” Town Hall Meeting. If emergency
funding is not secured for 2005, the Inlets will be impassable. The Coast Guard has
already removed the navigations bouys in Topsail and New River Inlets.
A Town Hall Meeting will be held in Swansboro, N. C. at the Rotary Civic Center on
rte. 24, at 7 PM on Thursday, 3/3/05. Everyone is welcome to express their concerns
and also to seek solutions to the problems. The safety, economic and environmental
impact the closing of the Inlets will have on our coastal communities and the State will
be devastating.
The Town of Emerald Isle funded the dredging for a new Bogue Inlet, however there is
no funding for 2005 beyond to dredge the 1 1/2 miles Connector Channel from the
Intercoastal Waterway to the new inlet.
Attendees:
N. C. State Senators
Harry Brown
Scott Thomas (Unconfirmed)
N. C. Representatives:
George Cleveland-Onslow County
Robert Grady-Onslow County
Russell Tucker-Onslow County
Jean Preston-Carteret County
Carolyn Justice-Pender/New Hanover Cos.
County Commissioners:
Lionel Midgett- Onslow County Chairman
Paul Buchanan-Onslow County
Martin Aragona-Onslow County
Delma Collins-Onslow County
Pat McElraft-Carteret County
U. S. Senators:
Richard Burr (Staffer Ryan Rankin)
Elizabeth Dole (Staffer Janet Bradbury)
U.S. Congressmen:
Mike McIntyre (Staffer Mary Ellen Stevens Simpson)
Walter Jones (Staffer Josh Bowlen)
Lieutenant Governor Beverly Perdue (Policy Director Tamara Jones.
Questions and comments can be made from the floor, they can be mailed to:
OBSFC-Save Our Inlets, PO Box 1978 Swansboro, N.C. 28584, emailed to
jcameron@bizec.rr.com dropped off at the Tideland News, 774 West Corbett Ave.,
Swansboro, NC 28584 and can be presented to a Moderator to read at the Meeting.
Information is updated almost daily on the Saltwater Forum of
www.captainstanman.us
and
www.fryingpantower.com
The Rotary Civic Center is located on the west side of Swansboro on the north side of
highway 24.
ANCI, THE ALLIANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA INLETS.
Alliance of NC Inlets Oyster Roast on 3/5/05 
