be Woodmont Shore, Milford - Widening to a 100-foot width by 
direct placement of sand, 500 feet of shore in the first pocket beach west 
of Merwin Point; widening to a 100 to 150-foot width, 3,500 feet of shore 
from Chapel Street northerly to a point about 00 feet north of Anderson 
Avenue and construction of 5 impermeable groins 300 to 00 feet long; 
c. Gulf Beach, Milford - Widening to 100-foot width about 1,200 
feet of beach by direct placement of sand; 
d. Silver Beach to Cedar Beach, Milford - Widening to a 100-foot 
width by direct placement of sand, 15,600 feet of shore along Silver, Myrtle, 
Walnut, Laurel and Cedar Beaches and Meadows End, with an added widening of 
150 feet around Meadows End, and the construction of eleven impermeable 
groins 350 to 400 feet long as deferred construction. 
The Chief of Engineers concurred in the views and recommendations of 
the Beach Erosion Board. 
COLD SPRING INLET (CAPE MAY HARBOR), NEW JERSEY 
Cold Spring Inlet is the navigable channel between the Atlantic 
Ocean and Cape May Harbor, which is the most southerly of the tidal lagoons 
on the New Jersey Coast. It is about 6 miles east of Cape May at the entrance 
to Delaware Bay. The route of the Intracoastal Waterway from the north 
traverses Cape May Harbor, thence runs westward through the Cape May Canal 
to Delaware Bay. Cold Spring Inlet has been improved and is maintained by 
the United States under a project adopted in 1907 and modified in 1945. The 
project includes an entrance channel 25 feet deep protected by two parallel 
stone jetties. The shore for about 5,750 feet west of the inlet is Federal- 
ly owned, being the frontage of an air and marine base of the United States 
Coast Guard. Thence westward lies Cape May City with a frontage of about 
3 miles, of which about 55.5 per cent is publicly owned. The shore between 
Cape tiay City and Cape May Point is sparsely settled. A portion of the 
frontage is owned by the United States. The shore of Cape May Point is 
developed for private use. Cape May City has been a summer resort for over 
a century. It is extensively developed with residences, hotels, a boardwalk 
and recreational features. The summer population is about 20,000. 
The instability of the shore west of Cold Spring Inlet has necessitated 
construction of protective works, despite which the beaches have deteriora- 
ted and portions of the shore have receded. local interests stated that a 
beach sufficiently wide and flat for recreational and protective purposes 
existed along this frontage prior to improvement of Cold Spring Inlet. 
The District and Division Engineers concluded that the most suitable 
plan of restoration and protection comprises groin construction and artificial 
placement of sand fill along a portion of the frontage of Cape May City. 
The Beach Erosion Board concurred in the plan for groin construction and 
artificial placement of fill along a portion of the Cape May City frontage, 
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