AVALON – The 2017 Avalon beach fill project will finish ahead of schedule and be completed in advance of Memorial Day weekend. Nearly one million cubic yards of sand has been placed on the north Avalon beachfront in advance of Memorial Day weekend, and hurricane season which begins June 1. Avalon has received one its largest beach fill projects in history with a local contribution of $686,520. The entire beach fill project in Avalon totals $7,784,432 and was financed largely with federal and state funding.
“Resiliency and recreation are the two primary goals of a beach fill project, and both have been achieved in Avalon before the tourism season, and before hurricane season,” stated Avalon Mayor Martin Pagliughi in a release. “We are grateful to the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, and our neighbors in Stone Harbor for participating in this major capital improvement project that has saved municipal taxpayers several million dollars courtesy of our proactive approach to restoring the beaches.”
During the weekly project meeting held May 18, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company announced that only 8,000 cubic yards of sand remained to be placed on Avalon’s north end beaches. This resulted in a total of 944,000 cubic yards of sand placed between the 9th Street and 30th Street beaches in Avalon as the work concluded during the afternoon hours of May 18. During the early morning hours of May 19, work began in front of the hotel district from 77th Street to 80th Street, along with the northerly limits of Stone Harbor. This additional volume in front of the hotel district will take approximately two and a half days to complete. During the mid-morning hours of May 19, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company reported a mechanical failure on the dredge “Texas” that results in the dredge being moved from Townsend’s Inlet to Cape May for repairs; those repairs will take about a week to complete.
The beach project in southern Avalon and northern Stone Harbor will use a submerged pipeline that will be in the Atlantic Ocean pumping sand from the dredge “Texas” to the landing zone at Stone Harbor’s 84th Street beach. There will be approximately two blocks of beach closed in each direction as sand is pumped onto the southerly three blocks of beach front in Avalon as a 1,000 foot safety zone is required. The pipeline that exists on the beach in northern Avalon will be removed from the beach by Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company via the 32nd Street beach path. Heavy equipment returns to Stone Harbor for the final stage of the project. Beach paths in northern Avalon are being restored along with appropriate split rail fence and sand fence.
The final phase of the beach project will consist of 305,000 cubic yards of sand to be placed in southern Avalon and northern Stone Harbor. The project will operate 24 hours and will only stop due to unsafe weather conditions or mechanical failure.
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