Sand Replenishment Preps Jersey Shore Beaches for Summer
Atlantic City, New Jersey’s most frequented casinos are preparing to unveil refreshed Jersey Shore beaches along their properties after completing a $40 million sand replenishment. After intense offseason storms buffeted…
Grass in the dunes at a Jersey Shore beach
Atlantic City, New Jersey's most frequented casinos are preparing to unveil refreshed Jersey Shore beaches along their properties after completing a $40 million sand replenishment.
After intense offseason storms buffeted the coastline last summer, the northern beaches of Atlantic City were left with less sand and steep cliffs. The North Beach Atlantic City Association noted that approximately 1.2 million cubic yards of sand were brought to the beaches.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has also been at work on a project that began in November 2024 and should be completed by May 1. The agency's beach fill effort wrapped up in February.
According to PennLive, the monumental beach replenishment effort is the second of its type to occur in about four years. Atlantic City and its Jersey Shore neighbors also benefited from a more than $20 million project that the Army Corps of Engineers completed in 2020. That project added approximately 2 million cubic yards of sand to the Jersey Shore's beaches.
In 2023, Ocean Casino spent approximately $700,000 to move sand from a South Jersey quarry to replenish a beach because of Army Corps project delays.
Speaking with NJ Advance Media, Hard Rock Hotel Casino President George Goldhoff noted that the beach replenishment project has allowed his property to bring back more of a beach bar-type experience for guests this year. He said Hard Rock plans to open four smaller bar areas for guests this year and expand its beach service farther north and south along the beach immediately adjacent to the resort.
“It's hard to put something permanent in there when you know that you have these storms and there's a probability that it could get washed away,” Goldhoff said on Monday, April 14.
A 2023 NJ Advance Media report discovered that more than $2.6 billion has been applied to beach replenishment projects in New Jersey since 1922. That's one-fifth of what has been spent nationwide. New Jersey's coast comprises only 1% of the United States' shoreline.
