Garden Club Plants Seeds for Sea Bright Sandy Recovery

An update on the Fair Haven Garden Club's plant sale and dune planting project in Sea Bright

Hurricane Sandy

So Long to Sea Bright's Mount Sandy

The mountain of sand in the Sea Bright Public Beach parking lot is pretty much gone

They called it Mount Sandy. It was a poignant remnant of Hurricane Sandy's devastating effect on the slip of a shore town nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and the Shrewsbury River — Sea Bright. When Sandy hit the just more than a mile stretch of peninsula and the two bodies of water met, what was the beach ended up in road. Since then, workers piled it in the public beach parking lot, leaving its mammoth mounds as a surreal reminder of just how much was lost and gathered back together again. People roamed on top of Mount Sandy to get a glimpse of the then hidden-from-view ocean on the other side, giving its surreal size perspective to onlookers. They looked like ants on an ant hill in a desolate Sahara of sorts. More than six months …

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Mourning Creatures' Loss to Sandy

An unrealized loss in a loss-prevention era. Do you know what these animals are?

The beaches are still pretty barren in Sea Bright. And, more than six months after Hurricane Sandy's wrath, as residences and businesses have been rebuilding and the beach has been slowly and nearly brushed back where it belongs, remnants of Sandy sporadically wash onto the shore. What people find when walking on scantily traversable sand is often a brazen reminder of a loss less often thought of — animals and sea creatures that couldn't survive the storm's toxic tide or what it left behind in its wake. On treks down the beach in Sea Bright since Sandy, a Patch friend and animal lover found a couple of remnants of that loss that made her and us saddened by the notion that nature can sometimes be very cruel in a survival-of-the-fittest …

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Elaine Van Develde

12:04 pm on Tuesday, May 7, 2013

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Sea Bright Beach Gets a Federal Boost

Project is expected to be completed by beginning of 2014

As promised, Sea Bright beaches are getting more girth — next year. Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-6) announced today that an unprecedented $102 million contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a massive shore beach replenishment project, beginning with a Sea Bright through Monmouth Beach contract to be awarded in June. With the Corps completing the project via three separate contracts, the other two for the remaining southern shore points, will, will be awarded in July. Work under the Sea Bright/Monmouth Beach project is slated for completion by early 2014. The work will be part of the largest beach nourishment project ever undertaken by the Corps and, in terms of sand volume, the world's biggest beach-fill project. "Once …

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Hurricane Sandy

Sandy: The Fall and Rise of Sea Bright

Six months after the storm devastated Sea Bright, some things have fallen for good and others built back up

It's been six months since the Shrewsbury River met the Atlantic Ocean and obliterated the small slice of the peninsula beach town of Sea Bright. The beach was in the street after the ocean had washed remnants of buildings, cars, personal belongings and even beach cabanas across the river and onto Rumson's shores and lawns. Sea Bright was shut down and nearly flattened. In the days that followed, Mayor Dina Long gathered residents at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School's Borden Stadium. It was there, on a now historic damp, dank day, that she gave what is now referred to as her "DO" speech. Long relived to bleachers full of weathered and weary Sandy victims how, feeling distraught and down, sitting in what was left of her office, she …

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A Rising Tide of Sea Bright Beach Replenishment

Congressman Frank Pallone (D-6) says more post-Sandy replenishment will start soon

Where's the Sea Bright Beach?

Will it be ready for summer?

Sea Bright Beach Clubs' Life After Sandy

Club owners say that members will have the private clubs to go to this summer, according to APP.com.

Beach club owners say that members will have the beach to come back to this summer after superstorm Sandy annihilated the summertime staples that line Ocean Avenue in this part of the Jersey Shore, according to a report on APP.com. Owners of Driftwood and Edgewater, formerly Water's Edge, clubs say crews are working around the clock to have facilities rebuilt and ready for members come Memorial Day, the article reports. John Chimento, the owner of Sands Beach Club a few miles north in Sea Bright, says that while the club, with its 350 lockers and cabanas, won't be ready for the 2013 season, members will still be able to enjoy the beach. Chimento told Patch in January that he was "very upbeat about the future of Sands." "The support from …

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Hurricane Sandy

Sea Bright Beach Recovery After Sandy

A look back on the devastation and ahead on beach restoration four months after the storm

It's been four months since Hurricane Sandy ravaged Sea Bright, destroying businesses and homes and bringing what was left of the beach right onto Ocean Avenue. Since then, plows cleared the streets and piled sand in parking lot mountains, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers got to work on a pre-Sandy sanctioned beach replenishment and Sea Bright Mayor Dina Long announced that beach badges were for sale at half price. The people of Sea Bright were and are determined to see the beach buzzing with dedicated beach bums at the start of the season. After sand dredged from the Army Corps' barge widened the swath of sand that Sandy washed away, the small public beach boardwalk still needs to be replaced and, but there's less debris and mountains of …

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Sea Bright May Be Part of Large-Scale Sandy Beach Replenishment Project

Sandy relief package passed by Congress in January would fund project

Sea Bright and other Monmouth County beach towns could be part of an upcoming large-scale beach replenishment project, according to Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06). An $8.5-million Sea Bright beach replenishment project was just recently completed after having been approved before Hurricane Sandy's destruction, and not accounting for it. This would be something more comprehensive, specifically geared to remdiate Sandy damage and erosion. The Sandy relief package passed by Congress in January would fund the beach replenishment project and others Pallone said he expects to be completed to restore damage to the Jersey Shore caused by Superstorm Sandy. "Based on his interpretation of the Sandy aid bill, Pallone pointed to these projects…

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