Little Egg Harbor has received the environmental impact statement and approval letter from the Department of the Interior that allows them to go ahead with the Living Shoreline project on Iowa Court, Osborn Island. The recent shutdown of the federal government had delayed the project to create a stone barrier and fill in the marsh out to the historic shoreline of the 1970s. The hard barrier will be planted with oyster spat (baby oysters) by ReClam the Bay.
Iowa Court’s living shoreline was one of two projects funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation; the other is…
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