To date New Jersey has fined North Wildwood more than $12 million for unauthorized beach repairs that it says could worsen erosion, while the city is suing to recoup the $30 million it has spent trucking sand to the site for over a decade. The DEP and Army Corps of Engineers prefer massive amounts of sand be pumped from offshore onto eroded beaches, widening them and creating sand dunes to protect the property behind them. Virtually the entire New Jersey coastline has received such projects. But in NWW, legal approvals and property easements from private landowners have thus far prevented it.