Oregon Inlet
Data
• Waves
• Tides
Monitoring
• Aerial Photos
• Surveys
• Currents
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Oregon Inlet Data • Waves • Tides
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Oregon Inlet
Oregon Inlet in North Carolina, the only inlet along a 170 km
stretch of coast, supports an active commercial fishing
and recreational boating industry. Severe erosion,
because of the ongoing migration of OI, resulted in NC
constructing a terminal groin in 1990 to prevent the
highway from being cut off from the south side of the
bridge. As with most natural tidal inlets, OI has seen
these dynamic changes since its opening in 1846, and has
migrated more than two miles south of its original
location. Monitoring programs are attempting to document
the condition of this dynamic inlet. Part of this program
involves aerial photography, and those pictures have been
combined here to give mosaics of OI dating as far back as 1932.
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