Project 1:

Atlantic & Burlington County Sites

71 - Big Fish Thorofare

Located adjacent to the NJ Intracoastal Waterway in the segment that runs behind Brigantine Island.  This channel has not been dredged recently, but this site and Flat Thorofare site represent unconfined sites that were used once, long ago then abandoned.  The site was 95.7% sand with multiple high elevation mounds crudely resembling a dune field.  The size and remote location argue strongly that this site should be left alone as a legacy site.  Evidence also was readily apparent that many shorebird species and the diamondback terrapin turtles have nested on these two sites for many years.