Rebuilding Jersey Shore boardwalk after Sandy

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The Jersey Shore -- comeback took a big step forward today nearly four months after super storm sandy.

Absolutely devastated that coastline.

They drilled dug into the -- the sound of bag pipes today as crews started rebuilding the iconic boardwalk in seaside heights.

Of course the resort area has been a tough summer destination for families in the northeast for decades it's where -- TV film the hit show.

Jersey Shore it's also -- sandy.

Swept the jets' star roller coaster often appear -- into the water back in October it is still standing there today.

Rick Leventhal is she's ice tonight how much progress.

Have crews made there -- They dug a lot of holes and -- a lot of these polls today bill you know the boardwalk of seaside heights is critical to this town.

Drives the economics of this down so you can understand -- -- -- celebrating when they installed forty of these polls today a new beginning.

According to the mayor the visitors flock here for the boardwalk more than one point.

Hundreds of thousands of my kids say every year it's.

About counts tourism -- for two thirds of the towns incomes -- when sandy smashed a mile of this oceanfront promise odd the town.

Almost immediately began cleaning up and soliciting bids to replace it in this morning.

The heavy equipment rolled in drilling the twenty foot -- for the 25 foot poles.

Forming the base of seaside heights future.

Any great journey starts for the first step and this is this is a huge step for us this is gonna let people know we can do -- project this big.

I'm certainly can help you -- your home together if your business together whatever might be.

Eventually 2000 filings bill three point six million dollar -- should be done by may tenth what about that roller coaster and so much of the other debris that still in the water.

Yeah you know the -- -- one of the lasting images of -- sandy was knocked off the end of the casino -- -- right into the Atlantic and that's -- remains along with other rides and a lot of other debris.

And we found that the surfer who said there's plenty more dangerous joke in the C.

In a town just north of here.

I went over in the lip of the -- and landed on.

Pile of debris it felt like something -- could have been a car or.

Even.

Anything -- big battle.

While the owner of the casino -- tells us he's just about to hire a company to begin the process of clearing that roller coaster at the ocean that'll take about fifty days.

And we're told the Army Corps of Engineers will handle the rest of the debris in the ocean and they hope.

To have -- ready for this summer bill it is still a huge job even today Rick Leventhal seaside -- majors.

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