Beach Replenishment Update: Project Area Passes 40th Street

DATE: Wednesday, April 22 PROGRESS: As of Wednesday afternoon, the project area had passed 40th Street on its way north toward the end of the first phase at 36th Street. The feeder pipeline now sits high on an elevated beach at 41st street where most of the work was taking place on Wednesday. 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 FOR DAILY UPDATES by E-MAIL: Sign up for free