The New Jersey Shore Protection, Great Egg Harbor and Peck Beach, (Ocean City), NJ project consists of providing initial beach fill, with subsequent periodic nourishment, with a minimum berm width of 100 feet at an elevation of +8.0 National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD). The beach fill extends from the Seaview Road Groin southwest to 34th Street where it meets the Great Egg Harbor Inlet to Townsends Inlet project. This plan required the initial placement of approximately 6.2 million cubic yards of material and subsequent periodic nourishment of approximately 1.1 million cubic yards every 3 years. Initial construction was completed in 1992. The project has been nourished/repaired in subsequent years.
The material for the initial construction and periodic nourishment is taken from the ebb shoal area located approximately 5,000 feet offshore of the Great Egg Harbor Inlet. This periodic dredging of the ebb shoal area helps alleviate the navigation difficulties in the inlet.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is the non-federal sponsor of the project.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Philadelphia District has awarded a contract to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company of Houston, TX for $19.5 million to conduct periodic nourishment of the Great Egg Harbor and Peck Beach, (Ocean City), NJ Coastal Storm Risk Management project. Work is the result of a partnership between the Army Corps’ Philadelphia District, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, and Ocean City. The contract calls for dredging, pumping, and placing more than 1.6 million cubic yards of sand from a sand borrow site offshore of Great Egg Harbor Inlet. The sand is pumped through pipeline onto the beach and graded into an elevated berm (i.e. beach). The project is designed to reduce the risk of storm damage to infrastructure. Sand placement activities will take place from 12th Street to the Seaview Road groin area. Construction began on July 7, 2026 and is expected to be completed by early September 2026. Construction activities are cost shared (65% federally funded and 35% non-federally funded).