A federal beach replenishment project is slated to begin in April on the borough's north-end beaches.
About 120,000 cubic yards of sand will be dredged onto beaches between 16th and 31st streets between mid-April and Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer. Another 150,000 cubic yards of sand will fill out depleted beaches elsewhere in the borough.
The dredge will continue south into Stone Harbor as part of the project. Avalon is contributing about $121,250 to the project.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock of Illinois was the successful bidder for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project.
Officials from Stone Harbor and Avalon will meet to discuss the project on April 4.
The borrow site is off Townsends Inlet.
Meanwhile, Avalon is talking to the federal agency about trucking sand from south-end beaches onto the north end when it erodes. Typically, sand that is dredged onto Cape May County's barrier islands erodes away and gets carried on ocean currents to beaches farther south
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