LITTLE EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — Work will start next month to replace the Osborn Island bridge, a $6.7 million Ocean County project 15 years in the making.
Stakeholders from the county, township and utility companies held a pre-construction meeting last week to finalize details and a timeline, officials said Friday.
Residents on Osborn Island have been waiting about 15 years for a new bridge to the township’s Mystic Island section, the only way on and off Osborn Island.
The island has about 450 homes and 300 full-time residents, said Joe Summers, of the Osborn Island Residents Association.
The existing two-lane, wooden bridge built in 1964, rebuilt in 1981 and rehabilitated in 1995 has reached the end of its functional life, county reports state. The timber in the existing bridge’s wooden piles are functionally obsolete and deteriorated.
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Stakeholders from the county, township and utility companies held a pre-construction meeting last week to finalize details and a timeline, officials said Friday.
Residents on Osborn Island have been waiting about 15 years for a new bridge to the township’s Mystic Island section, the only way on and off Osborn Island.
The island has about 450 homes and 300 full-time residents, said Joe Summers, of the Osborn Island Residents Association.
The existing two-lane, wooden bridge built in 1964, rebuilt in 1981 and rehabilitated in 1995 has reached the end of its functional life, county reports state. The timber in the existing bridge’s wooden piles are functionally obsolete and deteriorated.
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