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Dredging operations on Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry route resume

INTRO – Efforts to restore the original Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry route got back underway this weekend. George Olsen has more.

Dredging operations got underway this past Friday on the Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry route that has been closed since an overnight storm on January 18th left the channel too shallow for ferries to travel safely. Ferry runs were cancelled until a new longer route was established on January 22nd. The Army Corps of Engineers conducted dredging operations on the original route in the spring but tests in late April showed that sand had started to shift back into three different areas dredged several weeks earlier, making those areas unsafe for ferry travel. Current dredging operations will work a 12-hours-a-day schedule. I’m George Olsen.

George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.