When will Ocean City take the necessary steps to find a way to dredge our waterways

 Today in the Point Pleasant Patch I read with a great deal of interest that the community of Point Pleasant has seen fit to obtain the necessary permits to do the additional dredging to make the channels easier for boats and also help in flood tides.

Perhaps Ocean City should take some advice from Point Pleasant and also Tuckerton. Both communities have managed to arrange for the dredge operation to improve the waterways. For some reason Ocean City is not capable of getting its act together for over two years they have not been able to have any work done on the main channel or the lagoons. At low tide the channel is a disgrace and I am sure the same holds true for the lagoons; some are just mud at low tide.

On December 12, 2013 I wrote a blog in the Ocean City Patch over the cities dilemma in not being able to receive permission to dredge. To date I believe my letter and the comments still hold true.

One has to wonder why the State of New Jersey can be so generous to Tuckerton and Point Pleasant and be so difficult with Ocean City’s request to perform the necessary dredging.

We are approaching another season and for boaters it will be one of only being able to go in and out of the channel and the lagoons at high tide. Not a good position for Ocean City a resort community.