illegal dredging

[grassysound man]

I heard the local marina on 26th street in West Wildwood was cited for "bottom scouring" better known as dredging slips out with the propulsion of a boat. West Wildwood police as well as D.E.P were on the scene the other day.

[boatliftman]

ut oh

[Old-guy]

That probably wouldn’t happen if it wasn’t so hard to get permits. Everyone needs to get paid so a guy can move a tablespoon of mud. Just wondering what does it take to get you slip dredged a foot deeper. From what I’ve seen in PA I bet it takes a few grand and the better part of two years.

[PAPete]

Seems like a bunch of crap....WTF is the big deal?!
I don't get it.

[Captain Phil]

I heard the local marina on 26th street in West Wildwood was cited for "bottom scouring" better known as dredging slips out with the propulsion of a boat. West Wildwood police as well as D.E.P were on the scene the other day.

Where did you hear this from?

[cat-man]

Where did u hear that?

[Vitalsigns]

I heard the local marina on 26th street in West Wildwood was cited for "bottom scouring" better known as dredging slips out with the propulsion of a boat. West Wildwood police as well as D.E.P were on the scene the other day.

What's wrong with that?

[bigal427]

With the way the DEP and EPA are anymore forget about getting permits. Cost are outrageous and it takes forever with red tape. Some bulkhead guys just dredge if they get caught they pay the fine. It winds up costing less then getting permits.

[workinpr0gress]

The offseason is flyover season.

[never enough]

Seems like a bunch of crap....WTF is the big deal?!
I don't get it.

The big deal is you take your problem and make it someone elses problem. By running a boat you just move the silt around. I do think the permits should be easier to get so you remove the silt instead of moving it into someone elses slip.

[Classof73]

That was the only way to get out of the Marina in Shark River. $2,200 for the season and and you got to dig your own hole.

[PAPete]

The big deal is you take your problem and make it someone elses problem. By running a boat you just move the silt around. I do think the permits should be easier to get so you remove the silt instead of moving it into someone elses slip.

Were they moving out of everyones slip???
Or from slipA to slipB?

I'd be pissed if you were moving it into my slip...if you were feeding it to the bay/ocean then what's the big deal?

[never enough]

Were they moving out of everyones slip???
Or from slipA to slipB?

The marina on 26th Street is kind of at the end of a canal where it bears around to the left. It is not a wide body of water and already shallow at low tide. There are slips across from the marina and next to it. There is no where to move the silt without causing a problem for someone else. It would be cool if somone could get a permit for the area behind the Wildwoods and then go dock to dock and get contracts with each homeowner.

[chunking]

When you dredge like that it causes problems for everyone around you. Stirrrrs up a lot of the bottom but only the very light sediment travels any distance. The heavier stuff settles quickly and usually in a large clump close by. Seen a guy do it with his 250 hp. After about ten minutes he had a nice hole right behind his boat. When the silt settled there was the hump about fifteen feet behind him. It was all shallow but level bottom when he started. After he finished, the slip behind him had a hump out of the water at low tide. If you have a single slip with no neighbors then no problem. If you have neighbors you are just screwing them.

[grassysound man]

If you go over there at low tide it looks like a plane dropped a load of cluster bombs in the mud.
The blew the mud accross the canal into the slips on Poplar ave
They blew the mud into the canal itself
They blew the mud into the neighbors slips
They blew the mud just about anywhere they could.
I have no problem clearing a little mud out so you can dock your boat.
But a FULL scale operation blatinly disregarding EVERYONE on that canal
reflects what kind of business they run.
The slips that are there must be illegal as well. You can just about get through the canal because they are so far out.
It doesn't effect me because i don't dock my boat near there but I do feel sorry for the seasonal people when they return and have an extra 2 feet of mud in there slip.