Property owners rally in support of beach replenishment for the south end of Ocean City.
Equipment will arrive later this month to pump millions of cubic yards of sand to restore Ocean City's eroded beaches. But the multimillion-dollar project will stop miles short of Ocean City's south end — where Superstorm Sandy knocked dunes flat, buried streets in sand and damaged homes from beach to bay. South-end property owners are asking, "Why?" Why would the federal, state and local governments go to the extreme expense of bringing the equipment and work crews to Ocean City only to leave the job unfinished? A group of owners are rallying neighbors to organize a fight — an effort to lobby federal, state and local officials to include the south end in the beach-replenishment project before the dredges leave this spring. The effort …
Ocean City property owners petition for beach replenishment south of 34th Street.
Neighbors from the south end of Ocean City have watched their beach erode slowly over the past few years, but the encroaching waves reached new lengths on an otherwise beautiful August weekend recently. The high tide pushed the weekend crowd into a huddle up against the dunes at the back of the beach. The waves rolled across the soft sand, covered most of a beach volleyball court, and forced the Ocean City Beach Patrol to drag its equipment to the very back of the beach amid the crowd. That's about the time the petition started going around. Jeff Monihan, a former real estate agency owner and current beachfront property owner, asked his neighbors to help send a message. As of the weekend, about 60 different property owners had signed a …
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8:26 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
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