Emergency beach replenishment planned for North Wildwood, NJ

As residents walk on the beach in North Wildwood, they walk past large cliffs that have grown over the winter months.
"Look at it now, it's 15-20 feet gone," said Dennis Murphy as he walked his dog, Pete, on the beach.
North Wildwood has been hit hard by storms, and because the beaches are so small, city officials say bringing sand up from Wildwood's larger beaches is no longer an option.
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[@michaelquinn8618]

Thanks alot murph about time you are helping north wildwood

[@garbo8962]

Way over do. Can remember back in the early 1960's we stayed at the Beach Court hotel ( now a dog condo ) on 20 th Street right off the boardwalk. At high tide the water would come in past the boardwalk but never had 6 to 10' high wall where beach eroded. Then by the late 1980's the ocean was over 1,500' from the boardwalk where you could not hear the waves. For a few years you could pay to ride farm carry pulled by a tractor from Boardwalk to the ocean. Now with global warming wonder if Wildwood will have to spend tons if money to erect high ways and huge pimping stations like New Orleans does. Tax payers should not finance what amounts to second homes for well off people.

[@erric288]

If it's any consolation to the tax payer, I'm sure the economic activity that results from the tourism in North Wildwood will generate more than enough tax revenue to pay for the beach restoration projects. Beach erosion and deposition is a natural process of dynamic equilibrium: beaches can disappear and reappear due to winter storms and changes in currents and hurricanes, etc. The restoration projects are necessary to maintain a beach during times of excessive erosion, especially in high tourism areas where the area benefits from having a larger than natural beach.