WEST CHESTER, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Weston Solutions, Inc. (WESTON®) announced today its completion of field work of a $13.6 million Task Order by the US Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District (Corps), to undertake a removal action for Discarded Military Munitions (DMM) at the Public Beaches of Surf City and Ship Bottom Long Beach Island, New Jersey. The WESTON-led project team mobilized the week of January 20, 2009 and completed work May 1, 2009—nearly three weeks ahead of schedule and in time for the tourist season at Surf City and Ship Bottom. Other team members included Sevenson Environmental Services Inc., Rettew Associates Inc. and Seismic Surveys, Inc. In completing the project, the team removed 1,915 Discarded Military Munitions and munitions debris and sifted approximately 390,000 cubic yards of sand from the dune, berm, and surf zone areas of the beach through excavation. The material was subsequently backfilled and regraded to the pre-sifting condition across the beach. In the surf zone, magnetometer surveys identified anomalies and digging occurred at those locations to investigate and remove any potential munitions. In addition, the team replaced 21 pedestrian crossovers, 3 vehicular crossovers, 1 handicap crossover, 56 private crossovers, and 8,100 linear feet of sand fencing. According to Patrick G. McCann, WESTON President and CEO, “As with every project we complete, our goal is to safely perform our work to the satisfaction of our clients. From the beginning, WESTON and our project stakeholders, including the Corps, the Boroughs of Surf City and Ship Bottom, and the State Department of Environmental Protection, all agreed on a common goal—to safely open the public beaches in Surf City and Ship Bottom by May 22. Thanks to a strong team effort despite some rather challenging weather conditions, we have been able to exceed this goal and return the beaches to use well in advance of the summer tourist season. The fact that our team put nearly 60,000 hours of work into this project without a lost time incident is also a very important accomplishment.” The WESTON team today also donated bags of clean sand from the project and, in concert with the Philadelphia and Baltimore Districts of the Corps of Engineers, will be working with the Boroughs to spread this sand at locations within the Bay Beach Park. Additionally team members installed street marker signs on the beaches of Surf City and Ship Bottom at each pedestrian cross-over to provide the public and safety officials assistance in identifying their beach location.
