November 2025: Project Update
In keeping with the federal Section 106 process for sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the County of Monmouth submitted an application for project authorization regarding the Monmouth County Three Bridges Project. After reviewing the application, the County’s Preliminary Preferred Alternative (PPA), and a presentation at a public hearing held on December 19, 2024, the New Jersey Historic Sites Council recommended that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner conditionally approve the replacement of the Glimmer Glass Bridge by letter dated January 21, 2025, the DEP detailed conditions the County and the New Jersey Department of Transportation are required to accept for project authorization in connection with a plan to replace the Glimmer Glass Bridge in Manasquan. During their meeting on Jan. 30, 2025, the Monmouth County Board of County Commissioners has accepted these conditions detailed by the DEP.
“We have been studying the Glimmer Glass Bridge for quite some time because the condition of the bridge has been deteriorating,” said Commissioner Director Thomas A. Arnone. “During the course of a scoping study, the Glimmer Glass Bridge was listed as a historic structure in the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places, making impacts of the project subject to the rules of the New Jersey Register of Historic Places Act.”
The conditions outlined in the letter include retaining an Architectural Historian who meets the Secretary of the Interior’s Professional Qualifications Standards to prepare a recordation document in accordance with Level II HAER standards for submission to the Library of Congress. The recordation will include high-definition 3D laser scanning and renderings. A website will be created to host the record and further document the bridge’s historical significance. The County shall pursue the feasibility of salvaging existing bridge components, to be exhibited in a publicly accessible interpretive display, for educational purposes.
The County has retained the services of a qualified Architectural Historian meeting the Secretary of the Interior’s Professional Qualifications Standards, and the historic documentation and 3D Scanning of the Glimmer Glass Bridge is in progress.
October 2024: Board of County Commissioners of the County of Monmouth
Public Hearing Notice
You are receiving this notice because you have been identified as an interested party for the upcoming New Jersey Historic Sites Council meeting on December 19, 2024 (rescheduled from October 17, 2024). Attached you will find a copy of the meeting agenda and a one page document outlining what to expect as far as procedures are concerned. This is a virtual meeting, and the information you will need to join the meeting are on the attached agenda.
PDF: Public Hearing Notice (PDF) (Updated 10-15-2024)
Please go to https://nj.gov/dep/hpo to access an electronic copy with working meeting links.
Microsoft Teams (Virtual Meeting)
Meeting ID: 295 978 920 328
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October 2024: Project Update
Link: Project Update
JULY 1, 2020 UPDATE
SECTION 106 AND NEPA/SECTION 4(f) WILL BE RESUMED AFTER AGENCY REVIEW/APPROVAL
OF THE ALTERNATIVE ANALYSIS HAS BEEN COMPLETED
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MEETINGS
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Monmouth County proposes to rehabilitate / replace the three bridge structures located at the border between the Boroughs of Brielle and Manasquan. The project area has been collectively known as “Three Bridges” to the residents of Brielle and Manasquan Boroughs since the late 1800s and it encompasses three water crossings linking the two boroughs: Green Avenue over Debbie’s Creek (Bridge W-7), Fisk Avenue Culvert (Structure W-8), and Brielle Road over the Glimmer Glass (Bridge W-9). The three bridge structures serve as a primary access for commercial, recreational, and emergency response vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians. The three roadways in the project area form a “T” intersection, with Fisk Avenue and Brielle Road.
The proposed work would include improvements to each structure, their approaches and connecting roadways. Because they are so close to each other, with overlapping approach geometrics, the proposed improvements would be advanced as one single construction project.
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Updated: 11-26-2025