Drum Inlet reopened by explosive blast
- Title
- Drum Inlet reopened by explosive blast
- Description
- A plume of water and sand rise high in the air as the Army Corps of Engineers detonated 26 tons of a high explosive this afternoon on the Core Banks on the coast of North Carolina. The blast blew a 385 foot plug out of the banks to reopen an inlet- Drum Inlet -that had been closed due to natural causes.
- Date
- December 23, 1971
- Original Format
- photographs
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- Local Identifier
- 0741-b45-ff
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- Subject(s)
- United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
- Drum Inlet (N.C.)--Explosion, 1971
- Explosives--North Carolina--Atlantic
- Sand bars--North Carolina
- Spatial
- Location of Original
- East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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- Daily Reflector Negative Collection from the East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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