Bridge comment on Onslow Beach Swing Bridge

Comment by: Stacy Steiner, One Life, on Oct 23, 2024
Vessel Type: Power
LOA: 54'

Oct. 23, 2024. The bridge only opens on the hour not half hour anymore per the bridge tender. No more openings upon request.

• WG Editor Comment:
  

  It appears the bridge is operating in violation of the CFR's. There is nothing posted in the Notice to Mariners that modifies this.

  § 117.821 Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Albermarle Sound to Sunset Beach.

  
  

  
  

  (a) The drawbridges across the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway in North Carolina shall open on signal for commercial vessels at all times and on signal for pleasure vessels, except at the times and during the periods specified in this paragraph:

  
  

  
  

  (1) Onslow Beach Swing Bridge, mile 240.7, at Camp Lejeune, NC, between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., the draw need only open on the hour and half hour.

  
  

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