Author: John Gausz

While a large portion of LBI is scheduled for beach replenishment, Surf City is only going to get a small section worked on. Work will begin in April and sand will be pumped to the municipalities of Long Beach Township, Ship Bottom, Beach Haven and Surf City over for a combined project construction length of 12.2 miles. Full story here in this link to The SandPaper.

https://thesandpaper.villagesoup.com/p/lbi-beach-replenishment-start-now-planned-for-april/1314668?source=WeeklyHeadlines

The largest snowfall of the winter fell on LBI on March 6th. Almost 9″ blanked the island. Here’s a video slideshow of the event posted on facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153170803617682&l=1657484900405271250

And here is an image of the new placards that should have been received by residents at this point.

Excellent drone view of the causeway bridge construction and frozen bay from this winter. Video was taken on February 17th, 2015 by Chris Lemcke.

Mixed bag of stuff this week.

Coldest February in a long time has had the bay frozen solid and Surf City local Mark Temme braved the elements and crossed it on foot on Feb 21st. He had a PFD on under his jacket, with an ice pick just in case. It was SOLID!

Emergency placards for re-entry to LBI have been mailed and should already be in homeowners possession.

A home that was being worked on in Stafford Twp had a reported gas leak at around 10AM on Feb 24th.  The home exploded w/emergency workers on site. It was a miracle no one was killed. Link to story and video here-

http://patch.com/new-jersey/barnegat-manahawkin/watch-video-shows-house-explosion-after-manahawkin-gas-main-break-0?utm_source=social&utm_medium=hs&utm_campaign

Sunsets have been no less than spectacular recently.

On Feb. 9 NJ Dept of Transportation’s key points discussed were:

• Project to be completed by 2020
• New main bridge in the double-span system should be finished in May 2016
• Traffic flow will be temporarily reduced to one lane during construction
• There will be a 6-foot sidewalk on the westbound side for pedestrians and  bicycles
• Once completed the new bridge will have two lanes heading eastbound and two lanes heading westbound.

  

Complete Sandpaper article found in this link:

https://thesandpaper.villagesoup.com/p/causeway-bridges-update-traffic-to-switch-to-new-bridge-in-may-2016/1303391?source=WeeklyHeadlines

Excellent video of winter storm Juno shot from a helicopter the day after the storm. Aerial footage shows Atlantic City to Island Beach State Park.

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/video/#!/news/local/SkyForce10-Aerials-of-Jersey-Shore-Snow/289983251

Some recent photos of the new causeway construction. Photos from The Sandpaper by Jack Reynolds .

For those looking for some free and fun holiday fun that’s really close, there is a live nativity set up on the east side of Rt 9 in West Creek near Tuckerton. There is a wonderful stable of live animals on display including llamas, sheep, and donkey’s. It’s near the State Trooper barracks. Be careful when parking on the shoulder and watch little children closely.

The board members of the SCTA met early on Saturday, Dec 13th at the Surf City firehouse.  The agenda was as follows.

For those of you that weren’t here on 12/9/14 here are some images of the flooding. Driving on Barnegat Ave in Surf City and the  south end of LBI was treacherous. Winter storm Damon gave us a storm tide of over 7 feet. To put it in perspective Superstorm Sandy was a 12 foot tide. Thankfully beach erosion was minimal since the wind went offshore mid afternoon and the storm started moving away.