AVALON — The Avalon Borough Council on Feb. 24, awarded a contract for an emergency beach fill project
that will be conducted this spring in the resort. The contract was awarded to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock
Company, LLC of Oak Brook, Ill.
“I am very pleased that this emergency beach fill project will move forward,” stated Avalon Mayor Martin
Pagliughi in a release. “A beach fill for the north end of Avalon is desperately needed following the repeated
nor’easters that have impacted our community”.
Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co. was the low bidder for the project.
Bids were unsealed on Jan. 8, and Great Lakes submitted the low bid for the emergency beach fill project, which will be conducted jointly between Avalon and Sea Isle City. The total bid for the project is $10.406 million; Avalon has authorized just under $4.5 million for its share of the emergency beach fill.
The agreement between Avalon and Sea Isle City will result in shared mobilization costs and each community paying for the sand that is pumped onto their local beaches.
Avalon’s beach fill will stretch from 9th Street south to 26th Street. The emergency beach fill project will occur this spring, and be completed before the heart of the summer tourism season. Avalon is expected to receive approximately 500,000 cubic yards of sand during this beach fill. The cost for each cubic yard of sand is $7.02.
Both communities have applied for necessary permits from state and federal agencies for the project to
move forward. Avalon and Sea Isle City will finance the cost of the beach fill project with local dollars and
seek reimbursements.
Town Bank – Trumpies you got your wish. You made your bed now you you have to sleep in it. Next 4 years will eventually tell you did you get in the right bed.
