Reviving the debate over how to solve Long Beach Island's erosion problem is the latest revision, issued this month, of an $85 million Corps of Engineers proposal to bolster seven miles of beach from Point Lookout to Long Beach by building new groins, repairing old ones and raising the beach with 8.6 million cubic yards of sand pumped in from offshore.
But a new group calling itself No Rockaway Pipeline was just getting started, launching a social media campaign and distributing flyers on the beach to raise the project's profile.
She was born in Iowa City, Iowa but raised on the beach in Carlsbad, California.
"The housing prices are much more moderate as compared to the Northeast or the West Coast, and it's a great place to raise families; the beaches are beautiful and only two hours away," Turek says.
"At that point, if you want to keep a beach, you'll have to keep raising the profile of the beach to keep up with a rising sea and build a hard structure" — such as a seawall — "behind it to control periodic storm surges".
"At that point, if you want to keep a beach, you'll have to keep raising the profile of the beach to keep up with a rising sea and build a hard structure"—such as a seawall—"behind it to control periodic storm surges".
The city passed the ordinance in 2008 after too many mansions were being used as ballrooms-for-hire, jammed with indiscreet partygoers who turned up the music, parked willy-nilly and raised the hackles of the Beach's well-to-do residents.
Stunning, silky, sensational football that has managed to make a man from the mean fields of Donegal look like he was raised on the beaches on Copacabana.
But the increased popularity of water sports such as kayaking, surfing, and diving, which often occur far from regulated bathing beaches, raises the question of the water-related health risks these sports entail.
