Ocean City Patch Letter to the Editor: Dredging Plan Out of Touch With Environmental, Economic Realities

Dear Editor,

The Dredge project is totally out of touch with environmental and economic reality.

The $800,000 Consultants’ fee which is very costly was well spent if only its findings were objectively analyzed. Instead the city responds with the dredge goal being to “go tip to tip,” knowing it’s going to cost a lot of money.”

• 542,000’ cubic is the total amount of Dredge Spoils
• 8600’ cubic to 9th Street Bridge
• 50,000’ cubic to Wildwood costing OC taxpayers $2.7 million

This leaves 483,400’ cubic with no site in sight and a recent survey suggesting that post Sandy it is probably 50% more spoils than that (720,000’ cubic).

It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that OC politicians are trying to contact NASA. Dumping the Dredge on the moon or Mars is not beyond our local politicians ambitions’ and budget.

• $938,000 approved to dredge lagoon between 8th and 9th streets.
• The impending approval of a 1300’ road to truck spoils from Roosevelt Boulevard to Site 83. Cost not mentioned and clearly not an issue for the Pols using public dollars.
• And for the Grand Finale a plan to spray Dredge Spoils over the wetlands. This assumes that the laws of Nature don’t apply as Sea Level is rising and the Wetlands will soon be under the Ocean. Fortunately Ocean City has been exempted from all this somehow.

Yachters certainly have a powerful influence on our politicians beyond comprehension.

As Sea Level rises the apathy of the OC politicians is revealed by their indifference to BL ENGAND’s plan to burn Fracked gas 24/7. This will emit more greenhouse gases than when coal was burning full blast.

Maybe it’s all part of their plan to submerge Ocean City and all coastal cities. This will give the yachters unlimited access and they will become the 21st century version of the Biblical Noah.

Sincerely yours,

Steven Fenichel, MD