The sifting is "about to begin?" The Borough website says bids won't be opened until Feb 6. Why the Jan 30 deadline? Why notify beachfront owners less than a week before. The reality is that no one has cleaned up anything and the entire oceanfront is a catastrophic mess. Not just the houses that border the "emergency access road," but the beach, Sea Watch, pavilion areas etc. Whoever is running the public works and beach departments should be embarrassed. If people had gone down and looked at the beach and walked the sand the lines to acquire beach badges would have been non-existent. Optimism tells me they could possibly get it done, pessimistically, it would be a surprise since it appears no one has a clue what they are doing. This apathy doesn't seem to exist in Belmar and other towns who cleaned their sand, debris and beaches up right away.

Sounds like Manasquan is adding insult to injury, in most towns after the storm they did emergency clean-ups where as residents piled their ruined furniture, appliances, tree limbs etc. at the curb, & the town sent front end loaders to gather it. After all why do we pay such high property taxes in NJ?

Now Manasquan is asking individual residents to take on added expense, to hire Bobcat loaders etc.to retrurn the sand to the beach...some of which traveled 3-4 blocks inland, due to no fault of any individual. Not only is this highly inefficient, but it seems like an added penalty to already storm battered residents.

Why can't they just have residents move the sand off of their private property to the curb, where Manasquan can use their already in use equipment to move it to the beach? That would make too much sense I guess!

So they are giving you two days to move all this sand? I would tell them to kiss my Irish Sandy Ass !!!!

Why doesn't FEMA do it. Maybe I will ask my 95 year old neighbor !

$afety! It's all about $afety.

Dear Mayor and Borough Council:

I did not ask for your sand. Indeed, I did not give your sand permission to take up residence in my yard. I will kindly return your sand to you at my first opportunity, after I am done paying to make my residence livable again, with whatever money is left over from my FEMA assistance after repairs. In the meantime if you are in a rush to reclaim your sand you are welcome to stop by at your convenience and pick it up. I will leave it, or at least most of it, out in the yard for your easy access. And don't worry, I have already paid a private carting company to remove my destroyed furniture, sodden and moldy carpeting and insulation, and waterlogged drywall from my yard, so there should be nothing left but my tears to stand in your way.

If for some reason this is not acceptable to you, please feel free to pound salt, or sand, as the case may be.

-- Frustrated Resident

This sounds like the same people in my town that say the final collection of fall leaves will be the first week in September.

Dear Mayor, Sometime last fall your beach sand was moved to my property. That sand is somewhat like a parked car that is in the wrong place for too long a time. As of today you have been notified that you must remove your sand from my property. For each day that the sand remains parked on my property without authorization you will be charged a $100 storage fee. If and when you elect to remove the sand please contact my office in advance. If your sand is not removed in 30 days it will be sold at auction.

Hello, here is a response on the Manasquan announcement from the state DEP as an update to this original story: http://manasquan.patch.com/articles/dep-says-state-fines-not-likely-for-squan-residents-sand

WOW talk about living n a dream world who in the hell put this guy in charge .

Not asking much is he(with sarcasm on full blast).