Bulkheads – Surf City NJ

City:
Surf City, NJ

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Flood and Erosion Control

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Description

The federal Works Progress Administration constructed bulkheads in Surf City, New Jersey ca. 1936 to mitigate soil erosion. WPA N.J. Project No. 5-248.

Source notes

"The Dawn," a New Jersey WPA publication; September 1936 issue, page 13. Found at the Jersey City Public Library's New Jersey Room.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 11, 2015.

Location Info

Surf City, NJ

Location notes: General location marker for Surf City

Coordinates: 39.660, -74.168

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