28 Feb 2022

$26 million beach renourishment project works around challenges

Every few years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredges sand from the Atlantic Ocean and pumps it to a 21-mile stretch of beach from the Borough of Sea Bright to Manasquan, New Jersey. This coastal storm risk management and erosion control project aims to reduce hurricane and storm damage to New Jersey’s beaches. Work is currently underway on the latest $26 million cycle of beach renourishment.

14 Feb 2022

Coastal storm splits island and brings communities together

In 1992, Joseph Vietri, then a coastal engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York