A federal judge is allowing a beach replenishment project in Atlantic County to resume following a storm that led to ponds of bacteria-laden water to form.

Judge Renee Marie Bumb on Thursday granted the request by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to let the project in Margate continue.

The government went to court Wednesday to ask her to overturn a state judge's ruling last week stopping the project while the two sides tried to work out a remedial plan.

Bumb gave the Army Corps conditions that include fencing off any areas with ponding of 2 or more inches of water.

The ponds of standing water are exactly what residents had warned of in previous, unsuccessful litigation against the government's plan to build the protective sand dunes in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.