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Mayor: revised Army Corps/NJDEP plan trims sand and reduces dune height; smaller pump-station option under $4 million
Summary
Mayor and staff said a revised GRR from the Army Corps and NJDEP reduces sand removal and lowers proposed dune heights from 16 to 12 feet; they discussed a smaller pump-station project (about $4 million) versus a much larger $10–15 million consolidation and requested renderings and overlays for council review.
Mayor and staff provided an update on a recent call with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection about a revised General Re-evaluation Report (GRR) for beach-dredging and coastal-protection work.
The mayor said the revised plan would take less sand than the original proposal and that the Corps intends to reduce dune heights from 16 feet to 12 feet in some areas, which the mayor described as "good news" for the borough. He summarized that walkways into dunes would be elevated and made more gradual and that the GRR would create more contiguous dune coverage without forcing steep climbs at access points.
On drainage and pump stations, council members discussed whether a pump station associated with the project could be moved toward the ocean or consolidated into a larger station. The mayor said the smaller pump-station element tied to this particular project is "a little under 4,000,000," while a full consolidation project could be on the order of "$10 to $15,000,000." He said the majority of the smaller project's cost would be covered by a grant and that the borough has asked the Corps for an overlay and renderings; a follow-up NJDEP meeting is scheduled next week.
"They reduced the size of the dune to from 16 feet down to 12 feet," the mayor said. "They have a rendering that is coming."
