An Inventory of the Wetlands Impacted by the U.S. Navy's Proposed OLF Site in Gates County, North Carolina
Abstract
The US Navy has proposed construction of an Outlying Landing Field (OLF) for carrier-landing
practice, at one of five potential sites in North Carolina and Virginia. The proposed
Sandbanks site in Gates County, NC is opposed by the Citizens Against OLF, who asked
the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic to evaluate possible damages to the area
by drafting an Environmental Impact Statement. This project will contribute to that
EIS by evaluating the site’s hydrology and wetlands using GIS analysis. Results of
examinations of the wetlands’ ecosystem services indicate large areas of important
wetlands on and near the site. The individual results (buffering capacity, runoff
estimates, and habitat quality) are integrated into a single product that can be compared
to the North Carolina Coastal Region Evaluation of Wetland Significance (NC CREWS).
This comparison shows a larger area of high significance wetlands in the NC CREWS
rating due to depth of the analysis, among other factors. There is ample evidence
of high wetland significance at the Gates County site.
Type
Master's projectPermalink
https://hdl.handle.net/10161/987Citation
Allie, Anna (2009). An Inventory of the Wetlands Impacted by the U.S. Navy's Proposed OLF Site in Gates
County, North Carolina. Master's project, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/987.Collections
More Info
Show full item record
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Rights for Collection: Nicholas School of the Environment
Works are deposited here by their authors, and represent their research and opinions, not that of Duke University. Some materials and descriptions may include offensive content. More info