The town of North Wildwood is suing the state of New Jersey for $21 million. The town is suing because the state government did not help replenish the beach after storms in the fall.
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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. He faulted the data collection relied upon by the state, which he said was performed by an unlicensed individual using"amateur equipment" that's no more accurate than a phone app.
The agency denied a request by the city to do emergency work to shore up the dunes, but the city did it anyway, prompting a December lawsuit from the state.North Wildwood is ready to start building the bulkhead. Thursday afternoon, piles of steel sat on the sand along with a giant crane and other heavy equipment. Erosion at the site appeared worse than it was in October, when the city first acted unilaterally to make temporary repairs to the dune by pushing piles of sand up against it.
hit in 2012, North Wildwood has not, Rosenello said. The city is part of a proposed multi-town federal and state beach replenishment project also involving Wildwood, Wildwood Crest and Lower Township.
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