Good News for Outer Banks Area!!!

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National Park Service News Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DATE: January 18, 2012

CONTACT: Cyndy Holda, 252-473-2111, ext. 148

Bodie Island Lighthouse Restoration Will 

Resume

Superintendent Mike Murray announced this week that a $1.89 million contract has been awarded to resume restoration of the famed Bodie Island Lighthouse located near Oregon Inlet. The National Park Service (NPS) Denver Service Center has issued a notice to proceed with the award of contract to the prime contractor, United Builders Group, LLC from New Bern, North Carolina.

The previous restoration project contract was terminated in Spring 2011 after significant new structural integrity issues were found in many of the main support beams under the balcony. The additional repairs needed were too costly to finish in the original restoration project and therefore work ceased. The contractor demobilized and was off-site by April 20, 2011.
NPS funding requests have since been approved to complete the restoration work in FY2012.

The new project is expected to begin in late February 2012 and be completed in October 2012. The work will include the following renovations:
Restore deteriorated metal
Restore components on the lantern level (support beams, masonry,
railing/ladder)
Replace galley cornice segments
Paint interior and exterior masonry
Replace windows and glass on lantern level
Repair the Oil house marble floor and roof, install new windows
Paint all newly installed metals/wood
Install fire suppression system and rehabilitate electrical power
Install stair strengtheners

Project update reports will be issued periodically. For more information, contact the Public Affairs Office at 252-473-2111 ext. 148.

-NPS-

NPS Photo

The Bodie Island Lighthouse is surrounded by scaffolding, and the lightroom and balcony are "wrapped" to protect the area during renovations.

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Colonial-era shipwreck moved to Hatteras museum

This ship is believed to be the oldest wreck ever found on the North Carolina coast and was unidentified. If only these old boards could talk!

COROLLA, N.C.

After surviving perhaps 400 years in the sand and surf off the North Carolina coast, the 12-ton remains of a shipwreck are making their final port-of-call.

What could be the oldest wreck ever found on the North Carolina coast was loaded onto the back of a truck Monday for a 90-mile trip to the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras.

Salvaged from the pounding surf in April, the wreck has rested under the shade of an oak tree near the Currituck Beach Lighthouse for the past three months.

But the massive beams have shrunk a little and cracked in the hot, dry weather. Experts plan to place the wreck on a concrete slab next to the museum and soak the 17-by- 37-foot remains in hopes of arresting the deterioration.

One possible preservative is a mixture of water and Elmer's wood glue, said David Moore, curator of nautical archaeology for the North Carolina Maritime Museum.

Cont.
http://hamptonroads.com/2010/07/what-may-be-ncs-oldest-shipwreck-be-moved?cid=ltst#rfq

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