Trees donated more than two months ago
Island Beach State Park manager Ray Bukowski explains how hundreds of donated Christmas trees are helping to build dunes in the state park. So far, Bukowski said, two months after the trees arrived, 90 percent are buried under sand. This type of dune building project was also put in place in Bradley Beach.
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Officials met with state DEP to discuss recent federal legislation to replenish Manasquan Beaches.
How to replenish Manasquan's beachfront is a question that may be answered with the help of the Army Corps of Engineers. After the widespread damage of Hurricane Sandy, Manasquan officials have been pushing hard for assistance to build up its beachfront to levels last seen in the 1990s, when the Army Corps of Engineers replenished the beach. Manasquan officials met recently with New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to discuss recent federal legislation, to replenish Manasquan beaches, and expressed optimism at the meetings. The NJ DEP said the Army Corps of Engineers plans to bid out replenishment work, that would restore Manasquan beaches specifically, councilmen said. The project would result in wider beaches for Manasquan, …
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Discarded trees to be used to build sand dunes
The Christmas tree you threw out after the holiday just may prevent someone from losing their home in the next big storm. The Wall Department of Public Works normally collects discarded Christmas trees after the holiday season, brings them to the public works yard and then turns them into wood chips. But not this year, Wall Township Administrator Jeffry Bertrand said. This year the all trees collected are going to Bradley Beach, where that town is using them to bolster its sand dunes – a practice that officials there have said helped to gird against the worst of Hurricane Sandy’s wrath. “It’s a really good reuse,’’ Bertrand said. “And, frankly, it saves us money because we don’t have to spend the time turning them into chips.’’ Bradley …
7:32 am on Monday, February 18, 2013
Considering a 1' thick (I am guessing minimum thickness to withstand the pressure of the Atlantic Ocean) steel reinforced concrete wall is probably in the neighborhood of $300-400 a square foot, has to be around 8' tall and go 4' below ground, and stretch for a mile is a cool $19 million minimum,not including the piles the footing has to sit on. The Christmas trees were free, snow fence is … more ›
Community Development Block Grants may be used by homeowners to rebuild
With 100 days since the devastating hurricane, Gov. Chris Christie’s visit to Sea Girt focused on what he called another rebuilding success — the reconstruction of the borough’s boardwalk. The visit was to celebrate another town’s big step in rebuilding their shorefront, and the governor used the opportunity to predict summer will be “open for business” on the Jersey Shore. “It’s been a hundred days now, they are wondering, is the Shore going to be back for the summer, and there are those who don’t think so. We know that is not true,” Christie said. The governor toured Sea Girt’s beach and now-under construction boardwalk, then praised that another town was rebuilding “responsibly” and with “future generations in mind.” Getting people back…
6:10 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Why do all our so called "leaders" keep saying these grants will off-set the expense of compliance when there is no guaranty to anyone that you'll get anything? Some will be lucky and many more probably will not get a grant. Then what? How long before we find out? How do we make rebuilding plans? Do we just continue to live on the second floor waiting to find out years from now there is no money … more ›
Chris Burke
4:03 pm on Thursday, April 25, 2013
This RUINED the beach experience for a few years during and after the replenishment. Cleaner? please, it was dark nasty smelling sand that took years to bleach out in the sun. Safer? By safer you mean the drop off was 10-15 feet deep right off the edge, with all waves breaking right on the beach causing major safety issues for swimmers in even the mildest of surf. more ›