Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Ocean Avenue topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Ocean Avenue plan calls for berms, gates, possible seawall and multi-jurisdiction coordination
Summary
The Ocean Avenue vulnerability assessment recommends local roadway raises, a berm on A1A's west side, in-line check valves or flat gates on the 48-inch culvert, a potential seawall at a specific low spot, and future pump-station planning — and notes the project requires county, state and neighboring-municipality coordination.
Jeffrey Hiscox described Ocean Avenue as a multi-jurisdictional challenge: the road is a county-owned corridor, A1A is state-maintained, and neighboring Manalapan borders the south side. Hiscox presented conceptual fixes including raising the park entrance, building a berm on the west side of A1A to prevent overflow, in-line check valves or flat gates on large culverts, and a small seawall at a low spot identified from LIDAR mapping.
"The strategy here is to look at it all the way around and try to isolate where these areas, where this water can come in," Hiscox said, adding that the Office of Resiliency and DEP are encouraging multi-community coordination and may help facilitate regional solutions. He noted that the conceptual Ocean Avenue project already has a construction cost estimate and could be the first deliverable under the town's resiliency plan.
