As part of the Resilient LBI enterprise, representatives from local municipalities and the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection have been taking proactive steps to address the challenges of climate change and sea level rise on Long Beach Island. Resilient LBI – an offshoot of the Resilient NJ Program – tasked the team with developing a comprehensive action plan, originally released in 2022, to build a more resilient community.

The objective of the current phase of the project, which began in October 2023 and runs through March 2025, is to…