Monday, February 4, 2013
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 …
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Emergency federal funding and an Ocean City ordinance will help rebuild beaches and dunes.
An influx of emergency funding to the Army Corps of Engineers will help rebuild severely eroded beaches in Ocean City in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. An already-approved beach-widening project is now scheduled to start in mid-February. It was designed to cover beaches from the north end of the island to about 12th or 13th Street. The new funding — announced to Ocean City at a meeting in Brigantine on Tuesday — would add to the 1 million cubic yards already approved for the project. It would not ony replace sand eroded by the storm, but return the height and width of north-end beaches to the profile when the original replenishment project was completed. The new funding would likely allow the city to extend the scope of the project beyond …
Friday, January 18, 2013
The city administration outlines a $50 million plan to improve infrastructure over five years.
Mayor Jay Gillian's administration on Thursday outlined a $50 million commitment to completing a to-do list of long-neglected projects: roads that don't drain, lagoons with no water, a warped and splintered boardwalk, bulkheads that fail to hold back the bay and a host of other public facilities in disrepair. The administration presented a five-year capital plan to City Council at a public workshop meeting Jan. 17 at the Ocean City Free Public Library. Gillian has said he'll make a priority of infrastructure improvements that were too often ignored in the past. The presentation also included a list of projects related to Superstorm Sandy, which left widespread damage across Ocean City when it struck on Oct. 29. Business Administrator Mike …
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Sean T. Kean says the proposed legislation could devastate the towns hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy.
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Sunday, December 23, 2012
Assemblyman Sean T. Kean, R-Monmouth and Ocean, says that a proposal by Senate President Stephen Sweeney that would force towns to choose between federal aid for beach replenishment or collect beach fees is a short-sighted measure that could devastate beach towns along the Jersey Shore that are in the process of rebuilding in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. “This legislation could financially devastate some hard hit towns,” said Kean. “Why would we ask towns such as Belmar and Manasquan to forgo charging a beach fee because they accepted federal funds to replenish their beach? Right now, these towns have to pay a portion of the huge cost to rebuild the boardwalks and bathrooms. If you couple that with the loss of beach badge revenue, it…
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
A lawsuit appeal filed by beachfront property owners asks Ocean City to pay for 'taking' their ocean views.
As massive waves crushed and flattened Ocean City's weaker dune systems and buried parts of the island under record-high floodwaters during Superstorm Sandy on Oct. 29, the wide and healthy dunes at the heart of Ocean City were the envy of the island. The dunes left adjacent properties high and mostly dry, protecting homes on the beach blocks between 18th and 40th streets from the worst of the damage. But the same dunes are part of two ongoing lawsuit appeals. Seven beachfront homeowners on the 2700 and 2800 blocks of Wesley Avenue in Ocean City are suing because the city "took" their ocean views. Another pair on the 3400 block have already been awarded damages for the same reason, and the city is appealing the decision. Sandy illustrated …
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Sunday, December 9, 2012
Ocean City resident Peaches Lukens asks the city to consider forming a research committee to plan for a durable dune system.
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Sunday, December 9, 2012
To the editor: The city and state's plan to spend $10 million more of taxpayers money on beach replenishment is as unrealistic as building a sand castle on the beach today and expecting it to still be there a year from now. The nature of barrier islands seems to be completely overlooked for far too long. Though "city" by all appearances, this city is built basically on a seven-mile-long sandbar. Sand moves. Tidal currents and wind move it. Some areas of the island collect this moving sand, while other areas lose it. It's the way all barrier islands work, past and present. All kinds of contraptions and superficial remedies cannot compare to the way nature dictates. Instead of dumping more sand, we need to rebuild what was once here. Dunes…
Friday, December 7, 2012
City Council considers a five-year plan for capital improvements.
The city administration on Thursday evening outlined an ambitious five-year plan to fix roads, beaches and boardwalk in Ocean City. At a public workshop meeting, City Council got its first glimpse of proposed capital spending for 2013 to 2017. The plan — still subject to item-by-item approval by council through the next several years — suggests spending $24 million to improve paving and drainage on Ocean City streets, $7.2 million to replace the Boardwalk between Fifth and 12th streets, and $3.7 million to widen beaches and deepen bayside lagoons. At the same time, the city will be using federal disaster relief money to repair damage from the Oct. 29 Superstorm Sandy (see detail). Some of the repair projects and regularly planned …
City Council considers a five-year plan for capital improvements.
The city administration on Thursday evening outlined an ambitious five-year plan to fix roads, beaches and boardwalk in Ocean City. At a public workshop meeting, City Council got its first glimpse of proposed capital spending for 2013 to 2017. The plan — still subject to item-by-item approval by council through the next several years — suggests spending $24 million to improve paving and drainage on Ocean City streets, $7.2 million to replace the Boardwalk between Fifth and 12th streets, and $3.7 million to widen beaches and deepen bayside lagoons. At the same time, the city will be using federal disaster relief money to repair damage from the Oct. 29 Superstorm Sandy (see detail). Some of the repair projects and regularly planned …
Friday, November 30, 2012
City Council passes a nonbinding resolution urging the federal government to expand a winter beach-replenishment project.
City Council added its voice on Thursday (Nov. 29) to the chorus pleading for the federal Army Corps of Engineers to expand a project that would widen severely eroded beaches on only half of Ocean City. Council voted unanimously to pass a nonbinding resolution (see attached PDF for full text) "respectfully requesting" the federal government to approve funding for beach replenishment from 36th to 59th streets. Mayor Jay Gillian and south-end citizens have already lobbied for more sand. The federal government is scheduled this winter to set up a dredge off the coast of Ocean City, lay underwater pipe and pump more than a million cubic yards of sand onto the island's storm-ravaged beaches. The $10 million beach-widening project is also …
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Update on status of bayside dredging and beach replenishment projects.
At Thursday's City Council meeting, Ocean City Business Administrator Mike Dattilo updated council members on two long-awaited projects: dredging bayside lagoons to make them deeper for boat traffic and pumping sand onto oceanside beaches to make them wider. BAYSIDE DREDGING When: Dredging started at 2 p.m. Thursday (Sept. 27). The city has a permit to dredge through Nov. 30. The city has applied to the state Department of Environmental Protection for an extension in case work is not complete by then — even though the city, at this point, anticipates work being complete before the end of November. Dredges will work seven days a week starting at 7 a.m., except on Sundays, when work will start at 8 a.m. Where: The dredging started at the …
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