A Stretch of Rockaway Beach Won't Be Ready by Memorial Day

Despite Fort Tilden opening on Memorial Day for the first time since Sandy, not all Rockaway beaches will be ready for swimmers. The NY Daily News reports that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contractors faced mechanical problems while pumping sand in the stretch of beach between Beach 96th Street and Beach 80th Street. They ordered a new dredging machine, but don’t think they can resume work until the end of May.

In the last month alone, contractors pumped 765,000 cubic yards of sand onto the beach. The goal is to pump 3,500,000 cubic yards of sand along the entire stretch of Rockaway Beach by this fall.

Rockaway’s Most Eroded Beaches Won’t Get Sand in Time for Memorial Day [NY Daily News]

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