About 120,000 cubic yards of sand will be
dredged onto beaches between 16th and 31st streets between mid-April and
Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer. Another 150,000 cubic yards of
sand will fill out depleted beaches elsewhere in the borough.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock of Illinois was
the successful bidder for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project. Officials from Stone Harbor and Avalon will meet
to discuss the project on April 4. The borrow site is off Townsends Inlet. Meanwhile, Avalon is talking to the federal
agency about trucking sand from south-end beaches onto the north end when it
erodes. Typically, sand that is dredged onto Cape May County's barrier islands
erodes away and gets carried on ocean currents to beaches farther south.