NJ's Governor Christie takes sand dune fight to court, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's administering on Thursday went to cloister in an accomplishment to appropriate bank foreground acreage endemic by the city-limits of Margate in adjustment to complete an Atlantic bank storm aegis arrangement of beach dunes.
The bank was acutely damaged in 2012's Superstorm Sandy, which was anon amenable for 147 deaths in the United States, destroyed added than 650,000 homes and all-embracing acquired about $50 billion in damages.
Over 90 percent of the easements bare to assemble the arrangement are secured, Christie's appointment said in a statement.
"The abnegation of actual holdouts forth the New Jersey bank to accommodate easements has affected us to seek accusation of portions of their backdrop so we don't added adjournment these analytical Army Corps projects that will assure lives and property," New Jersey Department of Environmental Aegis Commissioner Bob Martin said in the statement.
Margate, amid on a littoral barrier island south of Atlantic City, resists voluntarily accouterment acreage easements on 87 accoutrements of city-limits acreage all-important for the project.
Ten clandestine acreage buyer easements are aswell needed, but they are not allotment of the accusation Christie filed in Atlantic County Superior Court.
Margate's business administrator, Richard Deaney, says attrition to the governor's plan is based on factors including the low adjourned amount of the city's land, at just $29,000, and the "arbitrary" attributes of the plan after because the town's absolute aegis arrangement of board bulkheads.
"It will could cause us millions of dollars account of expenditures over time to alter those beach dunes if we accept a bulkhead arrangement that has been in abode for 60 years," Deaney said. "Margate is not adjoin any measures that are reasonable for storm protection."
Deaney said 996 of 998 accident claims from Superstorm Sandy were from non-beach foreground acreage owners who were hit by baptize from the bay-side, rather than the ocean.
Christie's appointment cited cogent overwash of Margate's beaches and accident to its bulkhead in the deathwatch of Superstorm Sandy, which it said appropriate the boondocks to book for Federal Emergency Management Agency funds to advice pay for the cleanup.
Ahead of Hurricane Joaquin endure week, Christie alleged Margate "selfish" for afraid the plan.
"We accept their measures are approximate and we would like to sit down, like the law requires, and point this out and accommodate with the Department of Environmental Protection," Deaney said. "But Governor Christie believes we are 'selfish.'
The bank was acutely damaged in 2012's Superstorm Sandy, which was anon amenable for 147 deaths in the United States, destroyed added than 650,000 homes and all-embracing acquired about $50 billion in damages.
Over 90 percent of the easements bare to assemble the arrangement are secured, Christie's appointment said in a statement.
"The abnegation of actual holdouts forth the New Jersey bank to accommodate easements has affected us to seek accusation of portions of their backdrop so we don't added adjournment these analytical Army Corps projects that will assure lives and property," New Jersey Department of Environmental Aegis Commissioner Bob Martin said in the statement.
Margate, amid on a littoral barrier island south of Atlantic City, resists voluntarily accouterment acreage easements on 87 accoutrements of city-limits acreage all-important for the project.
Ten clandestine acreage buyer easements are aswell needed, but they are not allotment of the accusation Christie filed in Atlantic County Superior Court.
Margate's business administrator, Richard Deaney, says attrition to the governor's plan is based on factors including the low adjourned amount of the city's land, at just $29,000, and the "arbitrary" attributes of the plan after because the town's absolute aegis arrangement of board bulkheads.
"It will could cause us millions of dollars account of expenditures over time to alter those beach dunes if we accept a bulkhead arrangement that has been in abode for 60 years," Deaney said. "Margate is not adjoin any measures that are reasonable for storm protection."
Deaney said 996 of 998 accident claims from Superstorm Sandy were from non-beach foreground acreage owners who were hit by baptize from the bay-side, rather than the ocean.
Christie's appointment cited cogent overwash of Margate's beaches and accident to its bulkhead in the deathwatch of Superstorm Sandy, which it said appropriate the boondocks to book for Federal Emergency Management Agency funds to advice pay for the cleanup.
Ahead of Hurricane Joaquin endure week, Christie alleged Margate "selfish" for afraid the plan.
"We accept their measures are approximate and we would like to sit down, like the law requires, and point this out and accommodate with the Department of Environmental Protection," Deaney said. "But Governor Christie believes we are 'selfish.'
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