North Wildwood Beaches To Get Emergency Fix

North Wildwood Beaches To Get Emergency Fix

“Finally!” says many North Wildwood visitors after it was announced last night that North Wildwood is getting the help they need for their beaches.

In a joint statement, Governor Phil Murphy and Mayor Patrick Rosenello announced a collaborative effort to address beach replenishment in North Wildwood, something that has been desperately needed.

This project aims to provide immediate relief to North Wildwood while long-term solutions are being developed by the Army Corps of Engineers and NJDEP.

The announcement in its entirety says:

“Governor Murphy and Mayor Rosenello are pleased to announce that, through collaboration and bipartisan partnership, the State and town of North Wildwood have determined an interim solution to address beach replenishment in North Wildwood. The New Jersey Department of Transportation’s Office of Maritime Resources is currently working to design and authorize a North Wildwood Emergency Beach Nourishment Dredging project that will serve to protect the infrastructure, quality of life, and economy in North Wildwood until the Army Corps of Engineers and NJDEP can complete a long-term project. The current plan will begin over the next few weeks and is expected to provide relief to the community over the next few months.”

The announcement doesn’t go into great detail about the logistics or the price of the project, but is something needed for North Wildwood no matter the price.

Over the past few years, we have seen horrible erosion tear away at North Wildwood’s beaches.

This was something we documented in our video, North Wildwood Beach Erosion 2024 Gotten WORSE? You can watch it at the bottom of this article.

While in the past, North Wildwood was able to truck in sand by back-passing, it hasn’t been possible for the past 20 months.

Back-passing is the process of taking sand from Wildwood and trucking it to North Wildwood to extend the beaches.

This was unable to happen due to tides washing away their main roadway making driving heavy trucks on the beach impossible.

Without a back-pass, and not allowed to dredge, the city was stuck with trying to build bulkheads to keep the water off private property and out of the city’s storm system.

The worst of the erosion happened at the end of last year when the dune system at 12th Street was completely destroyed by Mother Nature. This meant nothing was keeping the water back. While the city did apply to the DEP to install a bulkhead, that request was denied.

This new dredge project will help put a bandaid on the current problem North Wildwood has.

A more permanent fix is coming in the future with the island-wide dune system and beach replenishment (in North Wildwood) that will hopefully be underway within the next year.

Below is our tour video of the North Wildwood beach this month.

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