20 Jul 2022

2019-00174-86

Expiration date: 8/17/2022

The purpose of this public notice is to extend the comment period of Public Notice NAP-2019-00174-86 to allow the public more time to submit comments. USACE as decided to extend the comment period for an additional 30 days, to terminate on August 17, 2022. The proposed activity includes the installation of a living shoreline, which will include a vegetated beach dune system along with an oyster reef breakwater extending from H Street to Island Avenue in Seaside Park, Ocean County, NJ. Proposed walkovers are to be constructed to maintain public access to the Bayfront. The proposed living shoreline shall help to enhance vegetation/habitat, dissipate wave action and stabilize the shoreline along the Barnegat Bay in the Borough of Seaside Park. Additionally, six existing stormwater outfalls will be replaced and extended, and inline tide valves are to be installed at each stormwater outfall. The applicant’s stated purpose of the project is to repair the damaged shoreline along N. Bayview Avenue. Comments are requested by Aug. 17, 2022.

18 Jul 2022

2017-00135-84 Extension

Expiration date: 8/16/2022

This Public Notice is being issued to extend the comment period for a previous Public Notice (NAP-2017-00135-84) in response to a request citing the unprecedented scope of this application. The revised comment period will close 60 days from the date of the original public notice, terminating on August 16, 2022. The applicant, Ocean Wind LLC, proposes to install and maintain an offshore wind energy facility and the required supporting infrastructure. The project includes up to 98 wind turbine generators (WTGs), up to three offshore alternating current (AC) substations, array cables linking the individual turbines to the offshore substation(s), one substation interconnector cable linking two offshore substations to each other, offshore export cables, an onshore export cable system which includes underground cables, two onshore substations, and connections to the existing electrical grid in New Jersey. Public comments are requested by Aug. 16, 2022.

14 Jul 2022

2021-00390-95

Expiration date: 8/13/2022

The applicant, the Township of Stafford in Ocean County, New Jersey, has requested Department of the Army authorization to perform ten-year maintenance dredging of 19 township waterways. All of the work would be accomplished via mechanical dredge. All resultant dredged material, estimated to be approximately 706,336.0-cubic yards, would be removed from approximately 298.38-acres of sea bottom and disposed at the upland Renegade Real Estate, LLC - Timster Trucking Site located in Little Egg Harbor Township, Ocean County, New Jersey. The stated purpose of this project is to maintain safe navigational depths for transiting emergency, commercial, and recreational vessels. More details are available in the "Public Notice" and "Plan Details" attachments. Public comments are requested by Aug. 13, 2022.

8 Jul 2022

2022-00377-86

Expiration date: 8/7/2022

NJDEP Blue Acres Program is proposing beach habitat restoration through several restoration methods. First the applicant proposes to remove old pilings, surface debris and rubble covering 4.49 acres of the existing shoreline, 2.38 acres of the removal is below the high tide line. The project is located along the Delaware Bay shoreline in Nantuxent Cove between Nantuxent Creek and Cedar Creek adjacent to West Bay Point Road and Paris Road in Lawrence Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey. The purpose of the project is to restore beach habitat at a severely eroded shoreline. Additionally, the project aims to improve conditions for spawning horseshoe crabs, foraging endangered Red Knots and other migratory shorebirds, and uplifting ecological production in the region. Lastly the project will improve local community and ecological resilience. Public comments are requested by August 7, 2022. More details are available in the Public Notice and Plans documents.

27 Jun 2022

2021-00286-95

Expiration date: 7/28/2022

The applicant, the Township of Brick in Ocean County, NJ, has requested Department of the Army authorization to perform ten (10)-year maintenance dredging of forty three (43) township waterways, with the proposed “township-wide” maintenance dredging program targeting substantial shoaling that has built up over the last century, including recent sediment deposited by Superstorm Sandy and Winter Storm Jonas. All of the work would be accomplished via hydraulic cutterhead or mechanical dredge. The stated purpose of this project is to maintain safe navigational depths for transiting emergency, commercial, and recreational vessels; and restore a manmade subaqueous borrow pit feature formed by historical sand mining activities. More details are available in the "Public Notice" document. Public comments are requested by July 28, 2022.