The Little Egg Harbor Township recreation fields off Route 539 are 20 years old and in need of drainage upgrades and re-turfing. The township committee introduced an ordinance during its March 11 meeting to bond $1.9 million to finance most of the project with an additional $100,000 coming from the capital budget.
According to township engineer Jason Worth, the four soccer and four football fields are in bad shape. “They are not level, the turf is in bad shape and the ground is saturated.
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