Sea Isle City beach project complete
By BRIAN IANIERI
SEA ISLE CITY – A dredge finished pumping sand in Sea Isle City on Tuesday, the second phase of a four-municipality beach replenishment in Cape May County.
While mostly uneventful, there was one incident in which a munition was dredged up from a sand-borrow site in Corson’s Inlet on Aug. 13, said Ben Keiser, manager of the state Department of Environmental Protection’s Bureau of Coastal Engineering. The ordnance – the first located during the project – was caught near Fifth Street in a safety screen designed to prevent old munitions from being pumped onto the beach, Keiser said Tuesday.
A dredge churns sand from the sea floor and sucks it through a large tube like a vacuum cleaner, pumping sand onto eroded beaches.
