Interesting approach to beach restoration, the real need is the south end from 42 to 59th street. The city sends a crew every day with a front end loader to move sand back against the dune. I suggest that city management get out of their office and take a walk on the beach.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank D. Bergen for keeping us well informed about all the happenings in Ocean City. Ocean City may be our second home, but we love it here and enjoy every moment we spend here. Spending my B-day weekend here now. I can't think of anywhere else I would rather be! :)

Federal government tax dollars at work in OC.

Anyone who uses the beaches or lagoons is a socialist sponge!!! Government pays for that. If the beaches and lagoons are suffering, then charities should take care of them. We can do fundraisers. And because raising the funds, doing the studies, plans, permits, awarding the contracts, purchasing the materials, managing the project, etc is complex and requires much coordination, the charities can pool their resources, elect leaders, and the leaders will carry out the project from start to finish. That is the only way to go. (As long as you do not consider or call the leadership any form of GOVERNMENT - because government sucks!). So do the people who use lagoons - a buncha lagoonatics is all. sunburn sucks too especially on bald spots.

The people who live on the lagoons and benefit from them should being collectivley paying for them. Why should taxpayers pay for the dredging of lagoons so the rich folks can park their boats. They can afford the homes why not chip in and dredge them.

No the rest of us should not be paying for the lagoons - only the bay front owners and boat owners and of course the south end will not get the beach replenishment. In Ocean City, only the IN crowd gets their needs met. The south enders pay taxes and get ignored by the Mayor. None of us are his buddies

Bill Potter

I'd like to confirm Steve Glaspey's comment - municipal front end loader working around the 57th Street beach, unsupervised, moving sand at 4 - 4:30 AM (yes AM) from the surf at low tide to the dune line. The 57th to 58th Street beach is getting narrower because of this work and this portion of beach was MIA several times this summer during high tides. I guess we don't pay enough taxes to get the Town's attention at the South End - not to mention the possible illegal movement of beach sand by municipal workers. Hey, contractors can't work at those times of the day without getting cited by the Municipal Code Officials. Lots of double standards!!!!!

Bill, maybe you should report this work in the early morning hours to the NJDEP. Possibly this work is illegal. Many in the south end are afraid to speak up and demand their rights - don't be afraid. Call the 4th ward councilman and make your feelings known.

Some of the dredging responses above are cute.

The thing is though that government created the dredging problem which now makes it prohibitively expensive to dredge. There was a time when you could dredge marinas and lagoons without mountains of red tape and without miles and miles of pipe because there are so few spoils sites where you can now deposit the mud. At one time people were more important than sacrosanct mud.

Dredging is a very inexpensive thing to do if you eliminate the red tape.