Kitty Hawk new berm

I took a ride over to the beach road in Kitty Hawk yesterday to see the new berm being built, and what all the hoopla is about. Yes, it is ugly dirt! The beach road is blocked from Eckner(Winks street) north a few blocks to Bennett. The large dump trucks are hauling this yucky dark gray mostly claylike material from a borrow pit in Currituck and stockpiling it between two oceanfront houses somewhere between those two streets named above. Then a large clamshell bucket machine is loading the material into these several large offroad dump trucks, which haul the material on the beach north to the Kitty Hawk pier area. At this point the berm has only been started up near the pier. I assume they intend to build one of this material south at least to the point near Eckner. That would be approx. one mile of beach. Below are a few pix of the operation. I got there late in the day, so the quality of the pix is not great- sorry! IMO, I can't think of a better boost to those supporting the repeal of the sales tax, than looking at this messy yuck on the beach! By the way, I voted yesterday.