As APP.com reports, the contractors for the Army Corps of Engineers started pumping sand onto the Long Beach Island Monday for the $16.7 million replenishment project, township officials said.
The project will make improvements to township beaches from 31st Street to 57th Street.
“We are happy that the work has started, ” Mayor Joseph Mancini said Wednesday. “ I think that they will be done by the June 15 deadline and ready for the summer.”
In late September, the Corps of Engineers awarded a contract for the replenishment of a 26-block stretch of beach in the Brant Beach section of the township to Illinois-based Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co. The contract calls for the placement of 1.2 million cubic yards of sand on the beach, along with the construction of dune cross-overs, sand fencing and dune grass plantings.
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Dredging Today Staff, March 15, 2012;