OCEAN CITY,NJ — Ocean City is set for another round of beach nourishment after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Philadelphia District awarded a $19.5 million contract for work on the Great Egg Harbor and Peck Beach Coastal Storm Risk Management project.
The contract went to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company of Houston, Texas, and construction is expected to begin in early July 2026.
According to the Army Corps, the work is part of a partnership involving the Philadelphia District, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Ocean City. The project is designed to reduce the risk of storm damage to infrastructure, using sand dredged from an offshore borrow site near Great Egg Harbor Inlet and placed along the shoreline.
The contract calls for dredging, pumping and placing more than 1.6 million cubic yards of sand. The sand will be pumped through a pipeline onto the beach and then graded into an elevated berm, or beach, according to the project description provided by the Army Corps.
Sand placement activities are planned from 12th Street to the Seaview Road groin area. The latest work is described as periodic nourishment of the existing coastal storm risk management project, which was initially constructed in 1992 and has been nourished in later years.
The funding structure follows the same federal and non-federal partnership model used for this type of shore protection work. Construction activities are cost shared, with 65 percent federally funded and 35 percent non-federally funded.
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