Location
United States / Americas
Project record
Ocean City and Peck Beach 2026 Periodic Nourishment
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Philadelphia District awarded Great Lakes Dredge & Dock a USD 19.5 million contract for periodic nourishment of the Great Egg Harbor and Peck Beach coastal storm risk management project at Ocean City, New Jersey. The contract calls for dredging, pumping and placing more than 1.6 million cubic yards of sand from an offshore borrow area, then grading it into an elevated beach berm between 12th Street and the Seaview Road groin area. USACE records construction as beginning on 7 July 2026 and the dredge Illinois as mobilised at the 10 July field-status boundary. The formal programme record traces the protection system to a 1991 partnership agreement and 1992 initial construction, while the City records the separate 2022-23 cycle as complete with 1.5 million cubic yards of beachfill and a 47,600-cubic-yard stockpile. Those historical quantities do not measure the current contract. The current evidence establishes an active marine works package, but not the quantity already placed, conformity with the design template, completion by the forecast early-September date or acceptance of the finished protection system.
Segment
Coastal infrastructure
Status
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's USD 19.5 million nourishment contract is in construction; dredge mobilisation is evidenced, but placed volume, accepted beach template and completion remain open / Confirmed
Last checked
16 July 2026
Coverage
Related sectors
Coastal infrastructure is the primary work classification. Related sectors connect this record to adjacent marine delivery and market coverage.
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Project anatomy
Contract scope and delivery roles
- Client / authority
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and City of Ocean City
- Delivery parties
- Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company
- Contract route
- USACE awarded a USD 19.5 million periodic-nourishment contract to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock. Construction is cost shared 65% federally and 35% non-federally through the USACE, New Jersey and Ocean City partnership. The award covers the current nourishment cycle, not the original 1992 construction, previous cycles, future nourishment or the whole New Jersey coastal programme.
- Execution window
- USACE announced the award on 1 June 2026 and initially expected work to begin in early July. Its project status page records construction beginning on 7 July 2026, with completion forecast for early September 2026. The dredge Illinois was mobilised at the 10 July field-status boundary. The page carries a 14 July update label, but its controlling construction narrative remains the 10 July mobilisation statement. The forecast remains a programme date until production, beach survey, demobilisation and acceptance evidence are published.
- Works package
- The contract calls for more than 1.6 million cubic yards of sand to be dredged from an offshore borrow site near Great Egg Harbor Inlet, pumped through pipeline to Ocean City and graded into an elevated berm with a minimum 100-foot width at elevation +8.0 feet NGVD. Sand placement runs from 12th Street to the Seaview Road groin area. The project is periodic nourishment of a protection system first constructed in 1992 rather than a new greenfield shoreline scheme.
- Marine interfaces
- The acceptance chain covers borrow-area authorization and sediment suitability, dredge production, weather and navigation around Great Egg Harbor Inlet, floating and shore pipeline integrity, pump-out and beach access, environmental windows and species controls, daily placed-volume reconciliation, grading, dune and berm survey, transitions at groins and adjacent reaches, public-access restoration, demobilisation and post-work storm-risk performance.
- Commercial evidence boundary
- This is a bounded current works contract with an identifiable owner, contractor, quantity, workfront and cost-sharing structure. The immediate operating questions concern production and accepted geometry rather than market formation. Mobilisation of the dredge Illinois is evidence of readiness, not production; a contractor quantity or beach closure notice is not proof of a complete 1.6 million-cubic-yard placement or accepted risk-reduction outcome.
Project timeline
Material developments
Dated events that changed scope, counterparties, delivery, commissioning or operating status.
Open this project in the Change LogDredge Illinois reached the mobilisation gate
USACE recorded the dredge Illinois as mobilised and set to begin operations. The statement establishes plant readiness at the workfront, not first production, pumped quantity, placed quantity, compliant geometry, completion or acceptance.
SourceUSACE recorded the current construction start
The project page records construction beginning on 7 July. That milestone advances the package beyond award, while production, beachfill quantity, surveyed template, demobilisation and owner acceptance remain separate gates.
SourceUSACE awarded the current periodic-nourishment contract
The USD 19.5 million Great Lakes Dredge & Dock award calls for more than 1.6 million cubic yards from the offshore borrow area and placement from 12th Street to the Seaview Road groin area. The quantity is contractual scope, not measured current-cycle output.
SourceCity records closed the preceding nourishment cycle
Ocean City reports the 21 November 2022 to 15 February 2023 campaign complete with 1.5 million cubic yards of beachfill and a 47,600-cubic-yard stockpile. Those are prior-cycle results and cannot be carried into 2026 production or acceptance.
SourceThe partnership agreement established the federal coastal programme
The USACE fact sheet records the Project Partnership Agreement on 18 September 1991 and initial construction in 1992, with approximately 6.2 million cubic yards of initial fill and an approximately three-year nourishment cycle. That programme baseline defines the asset history, not current-contract performance.
SourceEvidence gap
What remains unverified
Outstanding evidence
- Dredge Illinois production start and plant availability
- Borrow-area authorization, sediment suitability and environmental controls
- Daily and cumulative dredged, pumped and placed quantities
- Pipeline integrity, shore landings and public-access management
- Surveyed 100-foot berm width and +8.0-foot NGVD elevation
- Transitions at groins, limits and previously nourished reaches
- Substantial completion, demobilisation and USACE acceptance
- Post-work storm response and the next nourishment decision
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Project sources 6
- Ocean City and Peck Beach coastal storm risk management project U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, Page labelled updated 14 July 2026; construction narrative dated 10 July 2026
- Army Corps awards contract for Ocean City beachfill project U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, 1 June 2026
- Philadelphia District coastal storm risk management programme U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, Current page reviewed 14 July 2026
- Federal coastal project partnerships New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Current page reviewed 14 July 2026
- Great Egg Harbor and Peck Beach, Ocean City project fact sheet U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, 15 April 2026
- Ocean City beach replenishment update City of Ocean City, New Jersey, 2022-23 cycle completed 15 February 2023