dunes

In addition to returning $375,000 back to Harvey Cedars, the State Supreme Court's decision to require lower courts to consider the protective properties of dunes also helps towns still needing to get access easements for federal beach replenishment project.

The fate of that 11-mile dune project from the Manasquan Inlet down to the Barnegat Inlet rests in the hands of the property owners refusing to sign the easements.

There's no rule that says the Garden State can't get hit again this year by a storm like Sandy.

The 11-mile-long oceanfront dune project remains up in the air, thanks to hundreds of holdouts, refusing to sign easements.

Many homeowners along the Jersey Shore are the recipients of a letter from New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Bob Martin explaining the importance of creating a dune system and the need for easements to be signed by all oceanfront homes.

Dunes will be built up along the entire 130-mile stretch of the Jersey Shore and you can take that to the bank.

The New Jersey Supreme Court will decide an issue crucial to the future of the Jersey shore in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy: whether oceanfront homeowners deserve cash compensation when protective dune projects block their views of the water.

Waterfront homeowners are not as selfish with their view as many previously thought.

Signed easements for a massive federal beach replenishment project are starting to trickle in once again after Long Beach Township posted the names of 63 holdout oceanfront property owners on its municipal website.

The deadline to sign those easements for the US Army Corps dune project has come and gone and Long Beach Township keeps one promise they made.