The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-09-04
JERSEYS BATTLE
AGAINST The SEA
Expenditure of Large Sums to
Check EroSionS at Coast Resorts
Begins to Show Results.
NEW TYPE WALLS SUCCEED
Believe Storms viii No Longer Eat
Into Coast Lines, Menacing the
Reaches-State Trains Boys
as Rural Leaders.

TrentOn-MOre than $1,OOO,UUU mas
been appropriated and raised by sub
scription in the past seven years by
resorts between Sandy Hook and AS
bury Park, approximately covering 20
miles of beach front, in a desperate
effort to check further encroaehment
of the sea- The problem has become
one of the leading questions for state,
county and individual property own
ers. Engineers and ocean front con-
tractors, who have been seeking for
80 years a concrete formula for hold
ing the ocean in check, apparently
seem to have succeeded, according to
engineers and government experts.
The solution is seen in stone sea-
walls and seawall jetties, erected on
an acute angle. BY adopting this
plan the contractors have overcome
the constant pounding of the south
easterly and northeasterly ground
swells that played so much havoc on
primitive seawalls of few years ago.
Sandy Hook Shows Results
During 1918 government engineers
for an appropriation sufficient to erect
a seawall parallel with the beach and
three others extending seward. AS a
result of the warning sent by the gov
eminent engineers Sandy Hook was
protected and the threatened strip OF
peninsula along the southern end Of
the government property that evil
denced a meeting of the ocean and
river when a storm from the east ar
rived soon proved to be huge sand
bar, with a beach extending full 300
yards seaward.
The money allowed by the govern
ment and expended for coastal protec-
ton of government property at Sandy
Hook is said to have been about $780,
600. This appropriation erected four
seawalls along the government coast
line about six miles in length. Each
seawall has a base of IS feet, tapering
to an IS foot top. Trap rock was used
on these structures weighing from 175
pounds to 18 tons. The average
weight was about seven or eight tons.
More than two and half years were
spent in completing this work and
close to 175,000 tons of rock used.
AS a result of this work Sandy
Hooks beach front was extended one
quarter of a mile. The property value
has increased, and the threatened
meeting of ocean and river that had
existed along this weakened sector is
preached. This narrow strip of O. st
wise property between the borough of
Seabright and Sandy Hook no longer
remains a problem for government en-
gineers.
Just south of this territory the Cen
trail Railroad of New Jersey operates
a double track line from New York to
Long Branch. For a distance of
about two miles the tracks extend rs
feet from the high water mark. A
cribwork jetty erected more than 80
years, filed with small rock, restraints
"Old Nep" from washing over the
tracks. To a certain extent this meth
cd of fertilization has been success
full. But every winter the tons of
sand that come washing over this
rock filed timber wall on easterly
storms force the Central officials to
operate a single track run over this
sector for all trains, to say little of
the expense incurred in clearing away
the sand.