By Amanda Oglesby, Asbury Park Press
MIDDLETOWN — Hurricanes have flooded Cathy Rogers’ homes in Port Monmouth and destroyed everything she owned.
Twice.
But on Monday morning, 84-year-old Rogers looked forward to a future that is safer from flooding for her and her neighbors in this stretch of Middletown.
Outside of the Port Monmouth Community Church on Main Street, elected officials and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel marked the beginning of the final phase of construction that will finish a series of flood walls and gates that will protect this low-lying area from the storm surges and hammering waves of future storms.
Behind them, the hum of construction equipment muffled their conversations as workers added new pieces to the existing seawall that protects homes on Main Street from flooding at the Compton Creek.
Related: NJ Spotlight video coverage of flood wall
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