Beach work on the Rockaway Peninsula is in full swing as the long-awaited East Rockaway Inlet to Rockaway Inlet, and Jamaica Bay Project gets underway in Rockaway, N.Y. There has been an authorization for the project since 1965, as the Rockaway shoreline has experienced severe hurricanes and nor’easters over the last 40 years.
In 1960 Hurricane Donna caused $8.7 million (1960 price level) in damages, including 6,000 homes and hundreds of commercial establishments and 1962 another storm inflicted...
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