September 15, 2023
PETERSBURG – Upper Township Committee authorized $1,337,500 for the township’s portion of the Great Egg Harbor Inlet to Townsend’s Inlet beach fill project. The funds are part of New Jersey’s...
PETERSBURG – Upper Township Committee authorized $1,337,500 for the township’s portion of the Great Egg Harbor Inlet to Townsend’s Inlet beach fill project. The funds are part of New Jersey’s...
PORT REPUBLIC — After 51 years at Stockton, Stewart Farrell, the area’s preeminent expert on beach replenishment, is retiring. Farrell, 80, has been instrumental in the implementation of beach fill...
STONE HARBOR – The weeklong winds that came in early May washed away sand from beaches across the county shoreline. In Stone Harbor, an assessment by the Stockton University Coastal...
AVALON – Following a hydraulic sand fill, in 2019, Avalon’s north-end beaches held their own in 2020, requiring no sand borrowing to offset erosion. Business Administrator Scott Wahl Jan. 27 informed Avalon Borough...
AVALON – The wide beaches and high dunes are back. The Army Corps of Engineers completed the 2019 Avalon beach replenishment project Nov. 10. The project was completed ahead of...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep Jeff Van Drew (D-2nd) announced a fix to a 2016 objection from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that made it cost-prohibitive for local towns to...
PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Philadelphia District awarded a contract to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company of Oak Brook, Ill. for $32.5 million to complete periodic...
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