The Cape May County engineer told the Board of County Commissioners on Aug. 12 that paving work is complete on County Routes 610 and 664 and that remaining Maintenance Paving Program projects include Town Bank Road, Mill Road and Bayshore Road south of the canal.
The engineer said the county has received $13 million in federal and state grants to support Phase 2 of Seashore Road and East Creek Mill Road resurfacing, plus a New Jersey Avenue road-diet and traffic-signal synchronization project; those grant funds will be supplemented with $5 million of county aid. The engineer also reported the county applied for a $220 million FWHA grant and is awaiting a decision that could take several months. Retention-basin work and Park & Zoo paving were also noted; surface-course paving was scheduled to begin the week of Oct. 27, 2025. The Avalon Canal Bridge piling remediation work was said to be on track to finish early next month.
Multiple agenda resolutions related to road work were approved as part of the consent agenda, including awarding contracts for miscellaneous drainage improvements and Seashore Road Phase I drainage work to Landberg Construction, LLC, and approving contract documents and authorizing advertisement for bids on New Jersey Avenue (CR621) Road Diet and Seashore Road (CR626) Resurfacing Phase 2. Those actions are listed in the meeting record as Resolutions 442-25, 443-25, 445-25 and 446-25 and were approved with the consent motion.
In public comment, Connie Kindler of Avalon Manor asked about a traffic signal request at Avalon Boulevard and Old Avalon Boulevard. Bob Church, a county traffic official, explained that traffic counts are done in four-hour increments and that the threshold is 60 vehicles per hour; he said this intersection has been “clocking 40-55 vehicles per hour during the studies, however, met the minimum of 60 vehicles for 3 hours during the last one.” Church added the county will include projection data in the RFP to be issued in September and expects contract award in October, with consultant analysis to take approximately two to three months.
What remains unspecified in the meeting record are contract start dates beyond the award and a full budget line-item breakdown for the county’s $5 million contribution; the meeting record lists approvals and grant awards but does not contain detailed contractor schedules or the full grant-application materials.