New Jersey beaches ready for summer May 28, 2021, by Eldin Ganic
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is working hard to ensure a safe and enjoyable season at the Jersey shore, the backbone of New Jersey’s tourism economy.
Following a pre-holiday weekend coastal monitoring flight, DEP Acting Commissioner Shawn LaTourette announced that New Jersey beaches are in good shape and water quality is excellent during the annual State of the Shore event in Asbury Park.
A February nor’easter caused significant erosion in parts of Ocean and Cape May counties. Shore protection projects prevented damage to homes, businesses and infrastructure. Repairs are underway to ensure public access to affected beaches.
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LONG BRANCH - So what about those dead fish washing up along the Shrewsbury and Navesink rivers, the ones that were knee-deep in some places?
A state senator is hoping to use state and federal money to reimburse communities that spent thousands of dollars cleaning up the aftermath.
Since March, thousands of pounds of dead menhaden, or bunker, have washed ashore in communities along the two rivers and their tributaries. Swarms of flies and a strong stench have accompanied the rotting fish. I have reached out to all the towns in the two-river area, state Sen. Vin Gopal said Thursday during a virtual meeting about the fish die off held by the environmental group Clean Ocean Action.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) finalized several major revisions to its statutory remediation standards rules (N.J.A.C. 7-26D).
To ensure swimming beaches are clean and good to go throughout the summer the Ocean County Health Department has announce they have a group of water inspectors who will be testing the waters on a weekly basis.
Save Twilight Lake from NJ Transit. Those signs can be seen all over Bay Head as residents fight to save their precious lake in the wetlands from a substation project currently under construction.
Ellen Nolan, representative of Concerned Citizens of Bay Head, said after Superstorm Sandy in 2012, it was determined that NJ Transit lacked resiliency to weather future storms. So they came up with a resiliency plan and were granted $24 million from the Federal Transit Authority to construct a substation in Bay Head to replace what was lost in the storm.
According to a statement from NJ Transit, this project is critical to the agency.