The Living Reef Action Campaign is CCA NC’s latest endeavor…
The Living Reef Action Campaign is CCA NC’s latest endeavor that combines habitat creation or restoration with an educational component supported by corporate sponsorships, Chairman Donald Wills of New Bern recently explained. Borrowed from CCA Maryland’s wildly successful program, the effort uses patented Lo Pro reef molds that chapter volunteers, community members, and school children will use to build the concrete balls that are deployed in sounds and rivers designated by the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries as permitted artificial reef sites, Willis added.
The LRAC program is anchored by a mobile reef ball building trailer with molds, tools, and materials that travels throughout the coastal region working with school systems where CCA NC can call on local chapter members for volunteer help. Each reef ball build will take about two days to complete—one day to build multiple sized balls and another day to dry and load the balls onto a trailer.
The LRAC program will educate coastal communities on the value of conservation both recreationally and economically, said David Sneed, CCA NC executive director.
“By building reef balls in a lot of school systems, our students who are our environmental leaders of the future will learn early the value of conservation,” Sneed said. CCA NC has bought 10 reef ball molds from the Reef Ball Foundation and will add another 10 in 2026.
