The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District has awarded a $10 million contract to Weeks Marine of Cranford, N.J., to place approximately 600,000 cubic yards of sand along Rockaway Beach in areas where erosion is most critical as part of near-term coastal restoration efforts taking place at previously constructed coastal storm risk reduction projects throughout the region like Rockaway Beach. The contract is the first of two that will be awarded this summer for Rockaway Beach restoration and a total of roughly 3.5 million cubic yards of sand will be placed in the near future along the eroded beach that was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy.