Island beach and NJ State Park updates

[storminsteve]

Thought it might be useful to post any updates here.

[clamchucker]

Island Beach will not reopen this year. One positive step is getting folks back in to the Island overall. John Bushell posted this on his site yesterday:

OK, just got word from Choef of Police Larkin that Seaside Heights, Seaside Park, and South Seaside Park, residents and business owners, with their contractors and adjusters, willbe allowed into the town, every day, from 8 AM - 3 PM. This is the first step towards coming back.

[Monty]

New Jersey Beach Buggy Association
Some pics of Island Beach are here:
http://www.njbba.org/beach-news.html#sandy

[finchaser]

For you guys that Like to fish IBSP..


Update!
Wednesday, November, 21, 2012 at 6:45AM
IBSP took a pretty bad hit from Sandy and members of the NJBBA took a ride with supervisor Ray Bukoeski on the 16th to assess damage. The park will remain closed until the families in Midway Beach ans Seaside get their lives back in order. The NJBBA has volunteered to help when needed as usual. You can see the pictures they took at:
www.njbba.org
Grumpys is best described as being on hold until utilities are restored and there is public access to the barrier island! Only residents and owners with re-entry permits are allowed at this yime. We were able to empty the bait freezers before it became a toxic waste site and are ready to reopen whenever things normalize. We are very fortunate and have a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving!
The Borough of Seaside Park has done a remarkable job of dealing with the countless problems in the Sandy aftermath. West of Central Ave. had the worst flooding damage and to the east, the damage lessened the closer you get to the ocean. It is heartbreaking to see all the piles of flood damaged posessions being piled up at the curb. Did I mention the we are very fortunate and have a lot to be thankful for. Say a prayer for those less fortunate.
Grumpy hisself

[DarkSkies]

Sent in by Fin, and courtesy of the Brick Patch and Jeff Childers of Childers Realty

http://brick.patch.com/articles/mant...photo-12293627
MANTOLOKING: The Long Road Back After Sandy

The exclusive community was hit especially hard by the superstorm, and much of the town remains in disrepair

• By Tom Davis
• November 23, 2012

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The houses always seemed so detached from everywhere else, set back against the Mantoloking beach and away from Route 35, close but distant in spirit.
The thousands of tourists who pass by them each day, during the summer, could barely see anything beyond the giant bushes that stand between them and the front door.
Over the past month, however, and since Hurricane Sandy hit, those same houses have become a bit too visible, while Route 35 has virtually disappeared.
Few towns were hit as hard, or harder, than Mantoloking, and its adjacent towns. Few have been able to get as close as Jeff Childers did, photographing a community where fires burned long after the winds of the storm died down.
Now, the people will try to pick up the broken pieces of a community that always seemed too distant from tragedies like this.
Over the past month, some of those exclusive houses have been in the water. Or they were smashed, boarded-up and tilted on their sides. Some debris of a demolished house even ended up on the Mantoloking Bridge.
A new inlet even formed where the Atlantic Ocean breached into the Barnegat Bay, leaving a sliver of a sandbar in between the two.
Route 35, meanwhile, has looked like it did in the 19th century, with sand covering it from side to side.
Here are some of the photos that Jeff Childers, a local land agent, took of the devastation.

About this column: News and essential information about Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey.

[fishinmission78]

Maybe some good news - saw this posted on another site.


"IBSP will reopen to beach buggy's with limited acess from Gillikins to OBA1. This will happen once acess to south Seaside park opens to the public. The date that is floating around is some where around January 7 th if all goes well with the natural gas restoration. Also IBSP is extending 2012 buggy permits to March 31 2013."

[barrys]

The Division of Parks and Forestry is extending the 2012 Mobile Sportfishing Permits (MSFV) until March 31, 2013 and will provide limited access (Gillikin2s Road to OBA 1; moving south when feasible) once Berkeley Twp. permits visitors back onto the Island.
The 2013 Mobile Sportfishing Permits will be available for sale beginning January 2, 2013 only from the Trenton Central Office of the State Park Service as Island Beach does not have the infrastructure to process revenue. Only mailed in applications will be accepted and permits will be issued based on the postmark on the envelope. The address is on the application. Please visit this Web site for information on the new permit process and application form.

http://www.njparksandforests.org/parks/island.html

Still can't get on the island yet, I got this information from Grumpy's site he's ready to open as soon as they let nonresidents come on.
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Barry

[clamchucker]

Good news, thank you barry.

[njdiver]

http://www.app.com/story/news/politi...5-90B11C341CE0

[finchaser]

Surprise

[Monty]

Surprise

Water looks nice!!!

[fishinmission78]

Surprise

I'm beyond outraged. That fat F*** closed all state agencies but it was OK for him and his guests to party on a beach that is closed to the rest of us. Eff u Christie!

[storminsteve]

[clamchucker]

Plover closure has been lifted as of today.
ATTENTION! Those with Mobile Sport Fishing permits at Island Beach State Park.
The Vehicle barrier will be removed by 8am on Monday, August 7, 2017. As of this date and time, all Mobile Sport Fishing Areas will be accessible.