Causeway Contractor Crews Clear Out, Still Work to Be Done

Equipment and pumps on Eighth and Ninth streets in Ship Bottom are the only sign of the $45 million final phase of the Causeway project visible for the summer as the N.J. Department of Transportation awaits the necessary equipment to complete drainage work. It is unclear if that work will be done during the project’s summer hiatus.

“I’m being told they had to add back-flow check valves for each of the drainage systems on Eighth and Ninth streets,” Kathleen Flanagan, Ship Bottom administrator,…