There’s a Tractor in the Lineup!
Heavy equipment preps the beach as surfers ride waves unfazed in the background.
Monmouth Beach is a popular surfing spot for many. The heavy equipment and men in hard hats has some surfers worried that yet another break will be ruined by another sand project. In the photo, the backhoe operator is laying the beginnings to a 5 mile long pipeline. The sand will be dredged from the Navesink and Shrewsbury Rivers in the vicinity of the Rumson-Sea Bright bridge and pumped into the surf at Monmouth Beach.
The Army Corps of Engineers are no strangers to rendering breaks flat. The recent project on Brightton Avenue in Long Branch speaks to this truth. The spot known as “The Pit” is barely starting to break properly again since the undertaking took place at the begining of the year. Even still, the sand has not been right everywhere North of Brighton, so pretty much all of Long Branch. All that extra “replenishment” sand was carried Northward due to the Littoral Current found here in New Jersey. Keeping this in mind, many advocates for our beaches believe this project will follow suit.
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