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DEP completes $18.4 million project to repair southern LBI beaches and dunes using sand dredged from Little Egg inlet

A contractor for the Department of Environmental Protection has completed an $18.4 million project to rebuild storm-damaged beaches and dunes in southern Long Beach Island while creating a safe navigation channel for nearby Little Egg Inlet.

As a result, the DEP will place a request with the U.S. Coast Guard to mark the boating channel for the inlet, a major thoroughfare for boat traffic between southern Long Beach Island and Brigantine that had never been previously dredged.

To read the complete news release visit the NJDEP website at http://www.state.nj.us/dep/newsrel/2018/18_0024.htm