Some of Beach Haven’s dune walkways will get additional improvements

Photo by Ryan Morrill
Agate Construction crews build one of the
town's three handicap-accessible walkways.

Almost all of the public dune walkovers in Beach Haven are finished being constructed after recent beach replenishment. The entrances that have soft sand near the street-end are being set with additional hard-packed I-5 material by Agate Construction, which should make them easier for people to walk across, said Mayor Nancy Taggart Davis.

Crews are bringing in special equipment to make the walkways look “more natural,” she added.

The mayor thanked the company as well as the Beach Haven Public Works Department and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for working diligently to get the borough’s beaches ready in time for the summer season.

The trash cans in the middle of the beaches, which a member of the public told Taggart Davis were an eyesore at last week’s “Meet the Mayor” event at the local library, will be moved back to the edge of the dunes as soon as all the sand fencing is up, the mayor noted.

The borough’s dune planting committee will plant shrubbery on the west side of the dunes in the fall, and the Army Corps will plant dune grass sometime next spring.

“By next year I think the dunes will look beautiful,” the mayor said.

— Kelley Anne Essinger

This article was published in The SandPaper.