{"id":43969,"date":"2025-11-08T09:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T09:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/43969\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T09:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T09:14:12","slug":"nj-dep-long-planned-beach-replenishment-project-in-wildwoods-falls-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/43969\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ DEP: Long-planned beach replenishment project in Wildwoods falls apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">WILDWOOD, N.J. (WPVI) &#8212; The long-planned beach and dune project on a stretch of the Jersey shore has collapsed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Action News obtained the NJ DEP paperwork that shows the Hereford Inlet to Cape May Inlet Storm Risk Management Project fell apart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Army Corps plan called for sand to be taken from the wider beaches of Wildwood and Wildwood Crest and brought to North Wildwood, which is suffering from severe beach erosion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The deal fell apart after the Wildwood and Wildwood Crest withdrew from sharing sand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Unfortunately, after years of costly engineering work and many attempts by DEP to help resolve local disagreements, the Project reached an impasse necessitating its termination: despite prior commitments, the Borough of Wildwood Crest and City of Wildwood will not proceed with the Project by using excess sand accumulated on the beaches of Wildwood and the Crest in order to reconstruct the eroding beach in the City of North Wildwood and construct a continuous protective dune system across all four municipalities,&#8221; a portion of the letter read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The federal funds are now being redirected.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILDWOOD, N.J. (WPVI) &#8212; The long-planned beach and dune project on a stretch of the Jersey shore has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[29158,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-43969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-29158","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}