Re: More beach replenishment 3/2/20:
 

I'm 58 years old and been fishing the surf from SH down to IBSP since I'm 17. Over those 40 years the drive specifically from SH south to 7 Presidents has turned into a view less tunnel between Condo complexes, luxury condos, large homes, apartments and businesses. The beach is barely visible until you park and walk up to the sand.

As long as there is a $ to be made and tax payers to fleece the paid off politicians will fund beach replenishment.

It is like filling a lake with a Dixie cup .... one cup at a time..... good luck with that.

Re: More beach replenishment 3/2/20:
 

I remember back when Sandy hit. Then not long after that there was the boardwalk fire, suspicious in my mind. They repaired and rebuilt that boardwalk in record time while people in middle class neighborhoods were still struggling to get back into their homes. Many of them around raritan bay where there isn’t a lot of money. Goes to show they take your money and give no help...sickening.

Re: More beach replenishment 3/2/20:
 

I live in Ocean City where the southern portion of town had the beaches replenished last fall. Previously some of these beaches were narrow and even muddy. The result was miles of beautiful, wide, white sandy beaches.
Ocean City prides itself on being “America’s Greatest Family Resort”
The replenishment revitalized the beaches benefiting thousands of residents and vacationers, rich, poor or middle class. Don’t turn these improvements into some kind of class warfare.

Re: More beach replenishment 3/2/20:
 

Rigghhhttt.. Until a noreaster comes and takes the sand away.. Might not happen for a few months.. but it will- It always does... People want to live on the ocean??. Terrific-enjoy. Want to live on
barrier islands that are by definition TEMPORARY??.. fine, have it it..

Only do NOT expect the taxpayers to subsidize your folly when the ocean , shifting inlets and bays all meet up during a storm, as they always have and always will...bob

Re: More beach replenishment 3/2/20:
 

btw, don't take my word, but maybe think about what the Designer/Architech/Planner/Developer has to say about this subject-


The Wise and Foolish Builders

24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.

26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

Re: More beach replenishment 3/2/20:
 

Beach replenishment might provide a short term boom but in the long run it’s just flushing $$ down the drain. eventually those now wide white sandy beaches will revert back to their previous state. Between littoral drift, storms and the whims of Mother Nature, the beaches are constantly reshaping themselves. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again (pumping sand on to a beach) and expecting a different result (beach remaining stable).