CHNS update on Buxton debris cleanup

CHNS staff remove large debris off the beach on October 20, 2025. (Credit: NPS-CHNS) CHNS staff remove debris off the beach on October 20, 2025. (Credit: NPS-CHNS)

All large debris now off the beach and removed from the former Naval site

Having resumed its debris cleanup on Hatteras, the Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS) reports that on Monday, Oct. 20, two dozen CHNS staff filled 52 pickup trucks with debris associated with recent house collapses in Buxton.

Since Sept. 30, a total of 10 oceanfront houses have collapsed, all but one of them in Buxton. On Monday, Oct. 20, NC Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey visited Buxton and held a press conference. (A Voice report on that visit is coming later today.)

The CHNS says a total of 415 pickup t

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