Due to a holdup on the Eagleswood Township side of a project to install a secondary natural gas distribution main from Dock Road in West Creek to West Alabama Avenue in Long Beach Township, work on Long Beach Island will not begin this spring, as New Jersey Natural Gas had originally planned.

A recent letter from NJNG to West Alabama Avenue homeowners explains, “As we stated during our presentation about the Horizontal Directional Drill project, NJNG and its contractors would not begin the work…