Go ahead, rebuild the dunes, but I want unfettered access to those beaches. Rebuild the dunes and replenish the beaches with taxpayer money? Then the state should take possession of any property under eminent domain, properly reimburse the property owners at fair market value and open up those beaches to the taxpayers.

NO DUNES WITHOUT EASEMENTS!!!!

It sickens me that my tax dollars may go to build dunes on private property. Obviously of all the homeowner associations on Ortley one had the smarts to sign the easement.

And the holdouts hired Robert Guttman....LOL

Suppose one were to build dunes in Belmar, where the beach is essentially a flat stretch from boardwalk to ocean: how high would they have to be to be effective, and would people strolling the boardwalk still be able to see the ocean?

Dunes alone are a total waste of money and only a temporary fix until the next major storm hits and they get washed away again. Island Beach State Park has the best widest and tallest sand dunes in the entire state and the roadway is far from the beach___yet Hurricane Sandy none-the-less made it way through the huge dunes at Island Beach Park and covered the roadway in sand. Stone and concrete walls like the one in Seabright, NJ provide the best level of protection and they are permanent___so we do not have to keep paying like with sand dunes.

Will Seaside Heights build dunes that will block the view of the ocean from the boardwalk........remains to be seen. They didnt have any dunes at all before Sandy for that very reason.

One town is putting a steel wall in, then covering it with dunes. Otherwise, how about clear plexiglass walls strong enough to withstand an ocean storm surge? They would leave a view.

THEY SHOULD NOT REBUILD 200 FEET FROM THE EXISTING OCEAN AVE.THIS WILL HAPPEN AGAIN,BUILD HIGHER DUNES AND REMOVE ALL HOUSES 200FT FROM EXISTING BOARDWALK AREA.

Require a dune for a Certificate of Occupancy, just like you need operating smoke alarm.

Where did all that dune sand end up? Have you any idea how much it would cost to buy all that sand privately owned? Unfettered access with no maintenance or guards. Good Luck.

Heard yesterday that some towns are fighting the rebuilding of dunes. Yes, even after their homes were damaged, they still want their precious view. Thats just wrong.

Just forget the Dunes......How about the weeks before a major storm we siphon water from the ocean, say 3-5 ft and send it into space. Or maybe dig a huge gulley or vertical tunnel in the middle of the ocean which would alleviate some of the water near our shores. The world would be thankful for this...

Ok, so you don't live ON the beach in a home with oceanfront property on a private beach BUT - you live a few blocks in, where if the dune were NOT there since you don't want your tax dollars paying for it, then the guy with the ocean front house completely loses his home and yours gets not only ruined by water but slammed by the rubbel of this home as well as it washes through town since there were no dune.

You people have some nerve. Our entire state was ruined by this storm. If you can't handle the necessary things that are going to happen to TRY to fix the mass amounts of devastation, do yourself a favor, MOVE to a state where you can live like a hermit and not be bothered by anyone else.

This article makes me wonder if the Manasquan Beach improvement association still wants the mayor and council to look into lowering the height of the dunes so to improve members view of the ocean.

Tax payer money, to enhance private property. Does not sound right. If you live on, or near the ocean, you should be able to afford the upkeep. If you can't afford it, don't live there...and don't ask me to help you afford it.

Tell Christie to reopen route 35 n in Mantoloking, that would be a great start to getting back to normal. Leave the Dunes a d Barrier Island to. Nature. I'm saying this and I live on the barrier islands

This ins more campaign rhetoric

i don't understand. fema is telling us we have to get flood insurance at our expense. no debating the issue, just do it. why doesn't fema just tell the people in mantaloking etc that they must put their own dunes up at their own expense, and just do it! why aren't they being bullied by fema like us?

let's make big government listen to us instead of the 20% wealthy. got any ideas?. how about one of us lowly working class running for big gov't. how many people in big gov't are not wealthy..probably no one. do they understand how to live on what they go out and earn? do they have to balance a checkbook and not eat a meal because they can't afford it? do they understand worry? i think not. i don't begrudge anyone who has money, but they should understand that not everyone is as fortunate as them. we have a fight everyday to keep our roofs over our heads and to pay our bills that are not bills of luxury. when was the last time the middleclass bought anything because it would be fun to own? probably not in quite a few years. by the way, i'm just a plain ordinary person..what does bohica mean?

You are making a logical point. People have to listen to reason. Even Trump is. He has been on the news. This is our country we are fighting for.

It doesn't sound like a lot of you know the science behind the dunes working. They aren't the only solution and they cause their own problems. Where do you think all the sand that's now in the bay came from? Lots of other places have these problems and do way more sophisticated mitigation (Holland, Japan, Louisiana to name a few). ray w. isn't the only one who won't come to the shore to spend money to look at a huge pile of sand - there're plenty of other places to go. I find it really unfortunate that so many people on the Patch feel like they have to throw their barrier island neighbors under the bus. We're in this together. By the way, there are PLENTY of places your tax money funds that you don't have "free and unfettered access" to - F-cove comes to mind, among others. Also, if any of you would bother to read the Biggert Waters Act, which is going to wipe out the middle class in NJ, destroy the Jersey Shore as we know it, and essentially create the greatest tax increase in history, you would know that "beach nourishment" is not approved for hazard mitigation. Get your shit together, Jersey. Or the party is over. And no - I don't live on the island. I have 1000 sq. ft bungalow in Brick and I am hosed.

As a 6th grade student at East Dover Elementary School inI 1982 we took a class trip to IBSP and planted Dune Grass with a man named Mr Dougherty , that was a man with a vision

Great Christie, So now you can have more illegals taking the blue collar jobs away.. Unions will never forget you having the DCA (Department of corrupt consumer affairs) not fine any (even though they recieved summonses) of those non union construction companies that hired illegal aliens that did not pay payroll tax (to include health care tax) that were used to mop out the Fat Rich Boys cronies homes along the shore. Thios epoor illegals were not given proper protective devices or breathing aparatus... , The owners of these companies did not have to have proper registrations and insurance either!. Christie is the epicenter of Fraud and Only for the rich in NJ... Oh yeah and he loves to suppress the poor it is quite obvious by his actions while in "POWER" ... But not for long.... I am not pro Dem or Rep. Just looking to squeeze out the corrupt wealthy off my sweat to create an equal playing for all.... OK sorry I believe this is still America and I am not going to let the politicians give it away to INDIA ansd CHINA for there own agenda.. Oh do you not feel good over 1400 people (many children) in India died in an faulty factoryu for making clothes to be sold in AMERICA... We cry about the 50+ killed by a tornado? Polliticans are killing way more because of there greed!!