Beginning next week, the N.J. Department of Transportation contractor for the final phase of the multi-year, federally funded Causeway rehabilitation and expansion project is expected to start installing the main drainage line on Eighth Street in Ship Bottom, state transportation officials said.

“However, the work may be rescheduled to a later date due to site conditions or the need to work with New Jersey Natural Gas as they relocate their gas main,” Jim Barry, a public information officer for…