The residents of a small section of Berkeley Township are fighting to save sand dunes that they say helped them withstand Superstorm Sandy.

Midway Beach, a small pocket of tiny bungalows in the South Seaside Park section of Berkeley Township, emerged almost entirely unscathed after Superstorm Sandy. Residents say that they were protected by sand dunes built over 30 years ago by volunteers.

“We are one of the few places around that didn't have water infiltration from the ocean,” says Midway Beach resident Darren Belick.

But a $126 million beach replenishment project underway is calling for 22-foot-high sand dunes to be built across the barrier island, including replacing the ones already build in Midway Beach. An engineer's report commissioned by the homeowners found that the Army Corps of Engineers' design is actually smaller in spots and provides less protection than the dune that is already there.

The condo association is now asking a Superior Court judge to deny the state Department of Environmental Protection’s attempt to use eminent domain to build the dunes on the privately owned beach.

“To hear that they want to actually lower the dunes in some areas, kind of makes you scratch your head,” Belick says.

A court date has been set for early November, the same month that the replenishment is slated to begin in South Seaside Park.

News 12 New Jersey reached out to the state attorney general for a response to the homeowners’ arguments, but did not get a response.