After years of research and planning, Long Beach Township’s Clam Cove Restoration Project is officially underway in Holgate.

On Nov. 5, several municipal departments collaborated with Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute to start placing oyster castles along the coast of Clam Cove, an island in Little Egg Harbor Bay. As township officials noted, “This framework will then be filled with our recycled oyster shells to stabilize the eroding shoreline.”