{"id":222,"date":"2016-12-19T03:51:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T08:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=222"},"modified":"2016-12-19T03:53:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T08:53:21","slug":"boardwalk-to-be-restored-at-cattus-island-county-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2016\/12\/boardwalk-to-be-restored-at-cattus-island-county-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Boardwalk to be Restored at Cattus Island County Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_223\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-223\" class=\"size-large wp-image-223\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cattus-1024x766.jpg\" alt=\"Cattus Island County Park (Barnegat Bay Partnership)\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cattus-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cattus-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cattus-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cattus-561x420.jpg 561w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cattus-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cattus-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cattus-180x135.jpg 180w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cattus-238x178.jpg 238w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cattus-640x479.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cattus-681x510.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cattus Island County Park (Barnegat Bay Partnership)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ocean County has awarded a contract to restore a boardwalk compliant with the federal Americans With Disabilities Act at Cattus Island County Park.<\/p>\n<p>The boardwalk \u2013 along with much of the park&#8217;s additional infrastructure \u2013 was heavily damaged during Superstorm Sandy and largely inaccessible since the storm hit in 2012. In recent weeks, the county&#8217;s Board of Chosen Freeholders has awarded a\u00a0$460,110 contract to a Monmouth County construction firm to replace the boardwalk, which spans approximately 1,100 feet.<\/p>\n<p>The boardwalk is situated along an existing trail in the park known as the Maritime Forest Loop, officials said. John Ernst, county engineer, said county taxpayers will be 10 percent of the project&#8217;s cost, with the remainder being funded by FEMA. The contract was awarded to Shorelands Construction, of Monmouth Beach.<\/p>\n<p>The park is currently open, however the\u00a0Cooper Environmental Center and Hidden Beach Trail remain closed during reconstruction.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2016\/12\/boardwalk-to-be-restored-at-cattus-island-county-park\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean County has awarded a contract to restore a boardwalk compliant with the federal Americans With Disabilities Act at Cattus Island County Park. The boardwalk \u2013 along with much of the park&#8217;s additional infrastructure \u2013 was heavily damaged during Superstorm Sandy and largely inaccessible since the storm hit in 2012. In recent weeks, the county&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,6],"tags":[57,58,11],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-ocean-county-news","category-superstorm-sandy","tag-cattus-island-county-park","tag-superstorm-sandy","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cattus.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}