Dauphin Island wants to join huge rebuilding plan - al.com

Dauphin Island wants to join huge rebuilding plan - al.com: "Dauphin Island leaders have appealed to Gov. Bob Riley for help incorporating the barrier island into a massive coastal restoration program that has been proposed for the neighboring shoreline in Mississippi.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' plan for Mississippi — ordered by Congress in the wake of Hurricane Katrina damage to the coastline — calls for more than a billion dollars in coastal work, including $477 million to rebuild the barrier islands of Horn, Ship and Petit Bois to fight erosion.

Dauphin Island, too, has been eroding away, and leaders there want to be included in the rebuilding."