The tiny Eagleswood Township municipal meeting room was packed Monday night, full of residents with two pressing issues on their minds: the status of the plan to lay a natural gas pipeline from the end of Dock Road in West Creek across the bay to Long Beach Island and the status of efforts to get Westecunk Creek dredged.

Presenting an update on the pipeline situation were New Jersey Natural Gas Supervising Engineer Joe Puglisi and Senior Project Manager John Kong, along with Scott Murray, an…