AtlantiCare staff members wear Spirit PPE. (Photo courtesy of AtlantiCare)
The full dredging operation can be seen in this image from 41st Street in Ocean City, NJ, on Tuesday, April 21. The hopper dredge "Liberty Island" is offshore and pumping sand from its hold into a feeder pipeline that spews sand and seawater onto the beach. Bulldozers are distributing the new sand, while workers on the platform of a "crab" survey the beach and its new elevations and contours.
Check OCNJ Daily for updates and photos of the progress of work of the Ocean City beach replenishment project for 2015 in the south end of Ocean City between 36th and 59th Streets.
DATE: Tuesday, April 21
PROGRESS: As of Tuesday afternoon, access to the beach remains blocked at the end of the 41st Street and 42nd Street dune crossovers. The feeder pipeline now sits high on an elevated beach at 41st street. The three-legged "crab" platform is surveying elevations and contours from within the surf, and bulldozers and excavators are distributing sand. Work can be viewed from the top of the beach at all blocks.
WHAT’S NEXT: The project will proceed northward to 36th Street over the next couple weeks. It appears as if two blocks of beach will be closed at any time as work migrates north. The Liberty Island, a “hopper dredge,” is shuttling back and forth between an area more than 2 miles off the coast of Strathmere (where it’s pumping sand from the ocean floor into its hold) to an area just off 42nd Street in Ocean City (where it’s pumping sand onto the beach through a feeder pipeline). After work is complete to 36th Street, the next phase of the project will be from 42nd Street south to 49th Street.
READ MORE: Ocean City NJ Beach Replenishment 2015 Daily Update
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