Project 1:

Atlantic & Burlington County Sites

76 - Sand Thorofare

Sand Thorofare is an ancient sand ridge located in the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge and is now a natural, vegetated sand island that has not been impacted by wave action for many decades.  This site may be related to inlet flood-tidal processes that once carried the majority of tidal flow from Absecon Inlet (Great Thorofare) prior to 1927 when the automobile causeway was constructed to connect Brigantine Island to Atlantic City.  Great Thorofare was essentially closed by this action.  Aerial photography from 1920 tends to confirm this hypothesis, especially when no evidence or history of this site being generated by dredging activity.