on Hatteras Island. The bridge, formerly known as the Pea Island Interim Bridge, was completed last year to replace a temporary metal bridge constructed after Hurricane Irene breached N.C. 12 in 2011.
The vulnerability of the road at Pea Island is nothing new. In 2011, Hurricane Irene cut a new inlet through the refuge that forced NCDOT to build a half-mile long bridge a few miles south of the ...
After the Rodanthe Bridge was completed in 2022, approximately 1,200 feet of shoreline just north of the Pea Island Wildlife ...