Posted on August 19, 2026
By Keith Demko
During his recent visit to Ocean City for the Maryland Association of Counties Summer Conference, Sen. Chris Van Hollen joined U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District Commander Colonel Francis B. Pera and Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan to mark the delivery of the federal portion of funding for the resort’s big beach replenishment project that’s starting soon.
Beach replenishment is first one for Ocean City in five years
Here’s more to know about when the project will start and what it will entail.
The work will be performed in the offseason, with three-block stretches of the beach closing for three days at a time as work progresses. This work will begin after Labor Day and be completed before Memorial Day 2027.
The Ocean City beach was last replenished with new sand in 2021-2022.
The Army Corps of Engineers-led project will dredge hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of sand from the Atlantic Ocean floor to boost Ocean City’s eroding coastline.
