USACE and its contractor, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, are conducting beachfill operations on Absecon Island. Work will take place in Atlantic City, Ventnor, Margate and Longport and is expected to be completed in the winter of 2020/2021.

In an episode on the Engineering With Nature® Podcast, Monica Chasten, a project manager for the USACE Philadelphia District’s Operations Division, discusses her work with other scientists and engineers to advance coastal dredging practices and the beneficial use of dredged material.

On July 31, 2020, the Air Force, USACE, elected officials and partners broke ground on a new $41.2 aircraft hangar at Dover Air Force Base. The fully enclosed hangar will enable all-weather maintenance of C-5 and C-17 aircraft.

The Fullerton, owned and operated by Barnegat Bay Dredging Company, conducts dredging in the New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway near Stone Harbor, NJ in September 2020. Sediment is being pumped onto Gull Island and Sturgeon Islands, two low lying marsh islands.