Buxton FUDS pipe removal work completed, results pending

During a visit to former Buxton Naval Facility, a Formerly Used Defense Site located in Dare County, North Carolina, near the Buxton Beach access May 1, 2024, National Park Service Chief of Resource Management and Science for the Cape Hatteras area, Meaghan Johnson, shows Col. Matthew McCulley, South Atlantic Division deputy commander; Col. Ron Sturgeon, Savannah District, commander, where pipes and foundations were exposed during storm events using old photos since the structures are no longer exposed and were covered with sand once again.

Col. Matthew McCulley, South Atlantic Division deputy commander; Col. Ron Sturgeon, Savannah District, commander; Sandy Gibson, South Atlantic Division, Senior Environmental Program manager and Glenn Marks, Savannah District Reimbursable Branch chief met with the Dare County Board of Commissioners May 1, 2024 to discuss the former Buxton Naval Facility, a Formerly Used Defense Site located in Dare County, North Carolina, near the Buxton Beach access. The FUDS property encompasses 3/10 of a mile of the more than 75 miles of beach along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.

Larry Pluss, a subcontractor with Red Badger Underground, Inc., locator. A contract was awarded to remove a pipe thought to be the potential source that could have resulted in the odors, sheen, and contaminated organic material reported to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by the National Park Service. Pluss used a ground penetrating radar to locate and mark pipes and other anomalies found under the soil at the former Buxton Naval Facility, a Formerly Used Defense Site located in Dare County, North Carolina.

Larry Pluss, a subcontractor with Red Badger Underground, Inc., locator. Points out a location where he found an unknown anomaly using his ground penetrating radar at the former Buxton Naval Facility, a Formerly Used Defense Site located in Dare County, North Carolina. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, awarded a contract to remove a pipe thought to be the potential source that could have resulted in the odors, sheen, and contaminated organic material reported to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by the National Park Service. The anomaly was not anything related to the pipe or the petroleum odors. The location was previously used by the Navy as a top secret listening post that detected and tracked enemy submarines from 1956-1982.

During a visit to former Buxton Naval Facility, a Formerly Used Defense Site located in Dare County, North Carolina, near the Buxton Beach access May 1, 2024, National Park Service Chief of Resource Management and Science for the Cape Hatteras area, Meaghan Johnson, shows Col. Matthew McCulley, South Atlantic Division deputy commander; Col. Ron Sturgeon, Savannah District, commander; Sandy Gibson, South Atlantic Division, Senior Environmental Program manager and Glenn Marks, Savannah District Reimbursable Branch chief, where pipes and foundations were exposed during storm events using old photos since the structures are no longer exposed and were covered with sand once again.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, awarded a contract to remove a pipe thought to be the potential source that could have resulted in the odors, sheen, and contaminated organic material reported to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by the National Park Service. The contract included removing and sampling the soil that surrounded the pipe as well at the former Buxton Naval Facility, a Formerly Used Defense Site property located in Dare County, North Carolina. The FUDS property encompasses 3/10 of a mile of the more than 75 miles of beach along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, has completed the pipe removal work at the former Buxton Naval Facility Formerly Used Defense Sites property in Dare County North Carolina, but results from soil sampling, which will identify the next steps, are still pending. Contract work at the site was completed Friday, May 17. The work included removing 70-80 feet of pipe, soil sampling and removing liquids that had been trapped within the pipe and the surrounding soil.

The sign located at the entrance to the Buxton Beach access closest to the former Buxton Naval Facility Formerly Used Defense Sites property in Dare County North Carolina. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, awarded a contract to remove a pipe thought to be the potential source that could have resulted in the odors, sheen, and contaminated organic material reported to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by the National Park Service. The contractors completed the pipe removal work at the site was completed Friday, May 17, 2024, but results from soil sampling, which will identify the next steps, are still pending. The work included removing 70-80 feet of pipe, soil sampling and removing liquids that had been trapped within the pipe and the surrounding soil.