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North Topsail Beach is on the brink as erosion threatens dozens of homes, now held back only by sandbags after losing hundreds of feet of shoreline. Facing a $18 million terminal groin project over 30 years — designed to stabilize the coast and rebuild lost beach — the town must balance urgent protection with massive costs, as natural dunes vanish and waves creep ever closer.

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