New Jersey has announced an emergency beach replenishment project in North Wildwood, a southern shore town at the center of a political showdown over its badly-eroded dunes.

A long-running sandstorm at the Jersey Shore could soon come to an end as New Jersey will carry out an emergency beach replenishment project at one of the state’s most badly eroded beaches. North Wildwood and the state have been fighting in court for years over measures the town has taken on its own to try to hold off the encroaching seas while waiting — in vain — for the same sort of replenishment projects that virtually the entire rest of the Jersey Shore has received.

North Wildwood will get emergency beach repairs after all. The Jersey Shore town — where the beach has only continued to disappear in recent years due to heavy erosion — is expected to replenish its shores for the summer through a new project,

County beach desperate for more sand will get some emergency help for this summer, officials said. The state has authorized a short-term beach renourishment project along the coast of North Wildwood.