Little Egg Harbor’s shoreline protection project for Iowa Court on Osborn Island is finally finished, and it’s been an example that others are interested in studying, saidtownship Committeeman Ray Gormley.
“It’s a model of what’s going to take place on shorelines all over,” he said during the Sept. 12 township committee meeting. Township Engineer Jason Worth said the project to reclaim an acre of salt marsh lost to erosion and build a rock and bulkhead “shelf” to mitigate the action of waves is complete, and paving the road is next on the agenda.
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