A settlement in lawsuits over Pawleys Island’s 2020 beach renourishment project will provide $4 million to relocate Pawleys Inlet and restore the eroded beachfront across the inlet at Prince George. A 13-page agreement is designed to let the town and Prince George property owners keep the inlet from migrating in the future.
The settlement signed last month by all the parties to the litigation came six years after the town of Pawleys Island began a project to pump 1.1 million cubic yards of offshore sand onto its beach. The work was completed in 2020. The first of three lawsuits was filed in 2022 after Pawleys Inlet had migrated 300 feet south toward Prince George.
The inlet has continued to move south, eroding the dunes in front of beachfront houses. It is now about 3,200 feet south of the public parking lot on the south end of the island. The settlement agreement calls for the inlet to be relocated within 800 feet of the parking lot, which is owned by Georgetown County…