Ship Bottom officials awarded a $135,690 bulkhead replacement contract for work along Ship Bottom and Central avenues just as the king tide, the anomalous high-water levels that result from the perfect configuration of a new moon, Earth and the sun, arrived on Long Beach Island last month. While the king tide hung around only through Labor Day, the bulkhead will be around a lot longer- at least that’s the plan.

Albert Marine Construction, a Waretown-based company that has worked with Long Beach Township, the state Department of…