North Wildwood is defying New Jersey's order not to shore up its eroding sand dunes and suing the state for $21 million, the price the city says it spent over the past decade trucking sand in as part of an effort to hold back waves.
NORTH WILDWOOD, NEW JERSEY - JANUARY 24: Dune fences lay in ruin from erosion after a blizzard on January 24, 2016 in Stone Harbor, New Jersey. A major snowstorm hit the East Coast over weekend breaking records of snow fall while causing flooding andA beach town that is defying New Jersey’s order not to shore up its eroding sand dunes is suing the state for $21 million.
The town filed its answer to that litigation on Wednesday as it asked a judge to order the state to pay North Wildwood $21 million, and to allow the city to immediately build a bulkhead along a section of the beach where the town says 75% of the dune has been washed away. The DEP declined comment on the lawsuit Thursday. But in past correspondence with North Wildwood, the agency has said that no emergency condition exists, and warns that the type of work proposed by the city could actually make erosion even worse.
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