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By Stephen Gabriel Staff Assistant City of Ocean City

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In last week’s article, I presented some historical background to the severe erosion experienced over

the last three years at

Ocean City’s north point meantime, City bulldccers along the Great Egg pushed sand up into piles Harbor Inlet That review fronUng the stone seawall.

mechanical difficulties with the dredge, pumping of sand to the badly eroded north point would not begin until late that fall. In the

.revealed periodic position changes of the inlet channel and resultant shoreline fluctuations down through the years. For instance, erosion along

City crews poured concrete to reinforce the rear of the seawall, and a small jetty was constructed out of large sandbags filled with cement. In a true display of

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channel began moving closer to Ocean City. As a result, the long walks across the inlet beaches became shorter as the shoreline retreated at a persistent rate. By 1974, high tide had reached the dune line and two years later was again washing the stone seawall just as it had in 1952. On March 1, 1976 the Ocean City Commissioners declared an erosion emergency at

the north point.

Just two weeks later Ocean City received an okay from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to begin emergency pumping of beachfill utilizing the Cityowned dfedge. Unfortunately, because of pipeline weld problems and

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donated damaged concrete burial vaults to form a make-shift breakwater out in front of the homes overlooking the seawall, and suprisingly the vaults

held their own.

Finally ready, the City's dredge swung into operation, pumping bay bottom sediments through 5000 feet of pipeline and discharging the sandy material onto the eroded north point beaches. Fighting through two severe winters in the eighteen month period (December 1976-July 1978) it spent at the north point, the dredge was able to

constructed in 1950 pump 250,000cubic yards of Unfortunately at about the sand and ulUmately build a same 'time, the Inlet h-nrh inn f~»» wirf* *t

However, with a gradual shifting of the inlet channel north toward Longport, the north point beaches began again to build out into the inlet. Infact, so much beach accumulated in that area the there was relatively little property damage to all of Ocean City's north end during the

Storm of March 1962. Encouraged by those

seemingly never-ending inlet beachesmoreand more development crowded onto Ocean CSty's north point during \b,e mid-1960’s, some ultfmately locating nearly on top of the protective stone seawall

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COURT HOUSE - The Cape May County Emergency Medical Services Council was reorganized at a recent meeting held at the Cape May County Civil Defense Emergency Operating Center in the Library Building at Cape May Court House. In attendance were representatives from the County Health Department, the County Ambulance & Rescue Squad Chiefs' Association, the County fire Chiefs, local and Marine Police, Burdette Tomlin Hospital, the County’s nursing homes, the U.S. Coast Guard, the American Red Cross, the United Way and Cape May County Civil Defense. The meeting was conducted by County CD Coordinator Lyndon , H. Simmerman. . Selected as Chairman of the Council was John McAdams, Chief of the Wildwood Crest Volunteer Ambulance Corps. Mrs. Jeanine Koknar, Chariman

of the County Chapter of the Red Cross, was chosen as Vice Chairman of the Council.

Obituaries GOERGE F. PAINE, SO. of 17 Colonial Ave., Cape May Court House. He was retired commerical fisherman. Died 7-7. ROSE LIGNELLE, 63, of 5313 Central Ave., Sea Isle City. Died Monday July 9. HARRY McMENIMEN, 72, of 125 Heidi Dr, North Cape May. Retired excutive with General Electric in New York City. Died 7-9. EDGAR E. BAILEY, 58, of Stone Harbor. Was a bartender at Hahn’s Resturant for 35 years. Died 7-10. MICHAEL C. DIONNE, 21, of 20 Mimosa Dr., Rio Grande. Died Tuesday July 10. WILLIAM NIXON, 85, of 803 Gardens Parkway, Ocean City. A retired builder. Died Thursday July 12.

new beach 100 feet wide at 114 fe#t above mean low water elevation. The greatest difficulty howevcr.was maintaining”that beach. At the , same time that sand was being pumped onto one north point section, storm waves and strong currents would be eroding away at another. All in all, the beach pumping operation was the key to the north point's survival during those eighteen months, and by the start oflast summer the worst seemed to be

over.

Wishful thinking perhaps because the City went through it all again this past winter. Waves crashing against the stone seawall, concrete poured to reinforce the seawall, imall jetties constucted out of large sandbags filled wih cement, emergency ap^ propriations by City Council, and numerous requests for advice and assistance to the State and Federal governments. With much nail-biting and wringingof hands, the expensive properties along the north point survived the winter with relatively minor damage. Today Ocean City and State of New Jersey on a 5050 cost sharing basis are in the midst of a shore protection project for the north point. A new beach has been pumped in and State consulting engineers are designing two or three groins to hold the beach in place with construction to begin in September. As we’ve seen in reviewing the history of Ocean City’s north point, erosion in that area is nothing new. Hand in hand with postion changes in the inlet channel has been a natural cycle of beach give and take. Wherever such cyclical changes occur they are a good indication to stay away from the area to avoid endangering properties later on and ultimately spending large amounts of money to protect or move the properties. Regardless of how large a beach is in any one area, it can never be large enough.

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