The pipeline and work area extend toward 39th Street in this view from 40th Street.
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: Thursday, April 23
PROGRESS: The beach where the project started — 42nd Street — is now open, though temporary fencing keeps pedestrians away from where the feeder pipeline makes landfall. The project is reportedly picking up pace as the hopper dredge is moving to a different part of the borrow area to pick up a finer-grained sand. The work now extends to 39th Street with the beach closed between there and 41st Street. Work can be viewed from the top of the beach at all blocks.
WHAT’S NEXT: The project will proceed northward to 36th Street. 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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