With a length of roughly 26 miles and a projected price tag of more than $1.3 billion, the proposed Wilmington Harbor deepening project would be a big and expensive undertaking.
It also is proving to be a controversial one, based upon the pushback from several towns and environmental groups.
In January, the Army Corps of Engineers asked the N.C. Division of Coastal Management to pause its review of the corps’ preliminary approval of the proposed channel deepening…