New Jersey municipalities receive $78.75 million in state Department of Transportation grants to improve their roads and bridges, Gov. Jon S. Corzine announced Friday.

Repairing the state’s infrastructure will be “central to both getting us out of the recession and positioning New Jersey to take advantage when the economy recovers,” Corzine said in a released statement.

Local governments maintain about 70 percent of the 36,000 miles of roadway in New Jersey. These grants allow them to do repairs that property tax revenues might not be able to fund.

The DOT allocates grant funds to each county, based on population, road mileage and investigations of the work that needs to be done.

Mullica Township received a grant for $118,000 for improvements to Jackson Road.

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