Monday, May 14, 2007
Ooops!
Sometimes even the best of intentions have bad results, as the good people of Ship Bottom, NJ discovered recently during efforts to rebuild the beach.
The Army Corps of Engineers said Monday that it has found and removed all the World War I-era military munitions possible to find on two Long Beach Island beaches, which could be opened to the public by the end of this week.They did use the best high tech available to find everything they could but just to be on the safe side.
The material was dumped at sea by the military decades ago, where it sat until it was sucked off the ocean floor and shot through a dredge pipe up onto the sand as part of a beach replenishment project over the winter.
As an added precaution, the Corps will ask local governments to prohibit digging deeper than 12 inches on the beach, and to ban the use of metal detectors this summer in those two communities.What they need is a good shark scare to take their minds off this.
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