Restoration of the marshes at Prime Hook National Wildlife refuge is set to begin June 15th.
It will be the first step in a $36 million effort to fight rising sea levels along the Delaware Bay.
Work crews will create drainage channels followed by over a million cubic yards of sand to beef up the beach just south of Fowler Beach Road to deal with openings caused by Hurricane Sandy.
There will also be a dune with grass to preserve the area and provide time for some of the wetlands adversely affected by human activity.
The project to protect over 10-thosuand acres of federal land along the Delaware Bay is expected to take some 30 years as the sea level continues to rise.