New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway

New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway Project Index Map

The location of the Cape May Canal as part of the New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway project. The project provides a safe, reliable, and operational navigation channel for the East Coast’s largest and 5th most valuable commercial fishing fleet in the U.S. (Cape May/Wildwood) and nine U.S. Coast Guard Stations including Cape May training base.

The location of the Point Pleasant Canal as part of the New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway project. The project provides a safe, reliable, and operational navigation channel for the East Coast’s largest and 5th most valuable commercial fishing fleet in the U.S. (Cape May/Wildwood) and nine U.S. Coast Guard Stations including Cape May training base.

Completed in 1940, the existing New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway project provides for a channel through the inlet and outer bar, a channel extending in a northwesterly direction from the inlet gorge to the Oyster Creek channel and through the latter channel to deep water in the bay, and the maintenance of a channel 8 feet deep and 200 feet wide to connect Barnegat Light Harbor with the main inlet channel. In 1991, new design deficiency measures were constructed including: a new south jetty parallel to the existing north jetty, a navigation channel 300 feet wide to a depth of 10 feet below mean low water from the outer bar in the Atlantic Ocean to the north end of the existing sand dike in Barnegat Bay, and jetty sport fishing facilities on the new jetty.

The Dredge Fullerton, owned and operated by Barnegat Bay Dredging Company, conducts dredging in the New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway near Stone Harbor, NJ in December 2018 as part of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project. The sediment was placed to create habitat on marshland owned by the New Jersey Division of Fish & Wildlife.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its contractor Barnegat Bay Dredging Company completed a dredging and habitat creation project near Stone Harbor, N.J. in December of 2018. Work involved dredging a portion of the federal channel of the New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway and beneficially using the material to create habitat on marshland owned by the New Jersey Division of Fish & Wildlife. The Wetlands Institute is conducting ecological monitoring of the site.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its contractor Barnegat Bay Dredging Company completed a dredging and habitat creation project near Stone Harbor, N.J. in December of 2018. Work involved dredging a portion of the federal channel of the New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway and beneficially using the material to create habitat on marshland owned by the New Jersey Division of Fish & Wildlife. The Wetlands Institute is conducting ecological monitoring of the site.

Contractors plant a section of Mordecai Island that had previously been restored with dredged material. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Philadelphia District and its contractor removed critical shoals from the New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway and used the material to restore a portion of Mordecai Island marshland. The island serves two important functions within Barnegat Bay: it provides habitat for wildlife and augments overall coastal resiliency for the backbay communities of Long Beach Island.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Philadelphia District completed dredging and placement operations in 2015 and again in 2018 at Mordecai Island near Long Beach Island, N.J. USACE worked with the state and several non-profit organizations to dredge material from the federal channel of the New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway and beneficially use it to restore sections of the marsh.