New Jersey Fish and Wildlife’s Bureau of Shellfisheries and Delaware Bay Shellfisheries Council, have requested Department of the Army authorization to perform ten (10)-year maintenance dredging of the Nantuxent Creek entrance channel to Delaware Bay, and a commercial vessel dockage area upstream within Nantuxent Creek. The Nantuxent Creek entrance channel to Delaware Bay, although historically utilized by transiting marine vessels, is being proposed as a new State Channel (#212), to be included in the State of New Jersey’s maintenance dredging program managed by the NJ Department of Transportation’s Office of Maritime Resources.

All resultant dredged material will be beneficially re-used within the Delaware Bay system to restore the eroded Money Island shoreline, enhance habitat, and improve ecological and community resilience.

Permit Application Number: NAP-2020-00403-95 ((US ACE Site)

Project Location: Downe Township, Cumberland County; Latitude: 39.283859ºN, Longitude: 75.243329ºW.

Public Notice Issued: February 24, 2021
Public Notice Expires: March 26, 2021

Public Notice and Plan Details (pdf, USACE Site)

Written comments may be submitted by e-mail only to the District Engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Philadelphia District at PhiladelphiaDistrictRegulatory@usace.army.mil.

Comments must be submitted by March 26, 2021.