No more Monmouth surf?!?

Hey bro-I suppose the one of the only places that will still be good is Belmar, NJ.... They have that artificial reef out there..

 

Brah, I was just reading at length the other day about those blokes across the pond at Boscombe! Have you seen the film on that faux break? Not half bad when you think about it, but the ride is short as hell for all that squabble and lobbying. Gets you thinking what could be done elsewhere. Man-made bathymetry. It's something else.

 

my monmouth county spot ruined

my secret spot ( i could tell you but then i would have to…..) is trashed. just ruined. pumping makes good beaches; less so or not at all for the surf….a large storm could turn this around.
so heres to the winter storm i have officially named "MAYHEM."

 

I thought Mayhem can be avoided just by switching car insurance.

 

noaa does not recognize naming winter storms or anyother legitimate agency. there for there will be no meyhem

 

Give it time

This isn't the first time they've pumped and it won't be the last ...it sucks but sooner or later they will come back ..hell it's only sand . It will take a few storms but the ocean will start revealing some secret spots in places that everyone wrote off. The key is to get there first before everyone else learns about them . That being said it took over 5 years after they pumped SeaBright for the spots to be legit ..be patient and mobile .

 

I agree with sandy hook surfer. Us northern Monmouth county boys have been screaming and crying about replenishment for last several years. Now southern Monmouth surfers are finally seeing it at their favorite breaks and as a result they have been traveling up to us this winter. It definitely is enraging to see millions of dollars spent to flatten a break for 6 months before the next storm just throws that sand on ocean ave or back out to sea, and eventually makes it rideable. But most breaks find a way to peel again, just takes time. I feel your pain but this is just an annual bummer now in the area we live in.

 

They started naming winter storms after sandy because many car, home and boat insurance companies include a item in their contract that says any named storm is considered an act of god and acts of god are not covered. They always find a way to screw you.

 

As far as filling the beaches its a waste of time and federal money just to save a few homes of the rich at the dune line. Pitiful if you ask me they should leave the beach alone and if you make more than a certain amount or your beach house was your second house you are on your own. The people who lost all and were in an area who didn't expect a flood or are buried financially due to the storm should get those federal dollars to help lift their house. Even before sandy it was always a waste of tax dollars. Just a bunch of wasteful sand moving for months so one big noreaster can take it all in a day. If we took the dams out of the rivers and streams the sediments would replenish the beach anyway for free, mother nature had this figured out we just fixed what wasn't broken.

 

Eveyrone relax. Maybe itll make it better. Monmouth county has about 8 gems of spots I could think of in about a ten block stretch. I dont think pumping sand is going to even make mother nature flinch, even so give it two three swells that will just break a little difference, then right back to normal. 18 million down the drain

 

It is the weather channel that is responsible for naming winter storms, although they took this idea from the Europeans who had been doing this due to the significant impact winter storms have in Europe.

NOAA does not recognize these names. The Weather Channel claims to have done this to bring more awareness to the potential threats of winter storms, but I"m sure we can all agree its to hype up and bring more media attention.

Back to the original topic, beach replenishment sucks. We are all too familiar in Delaware, where they destroyed most of our surfing. But, i have learned there are different ways to pump sand, and different types of sand to be pumped, which seems to greatly impact the influence the pumping has on the surf breaks. I'd recommend you get in touch with the local Surfrider and see what kind of influence and understand Surfrider has on the beach pumping. I know in Delaware, the Surfrider Org is intimately aware of the perils of replenishment and different policy pitfalls and options available, and they are in persistent dialogue with the policy makers.

 

Beach replenishment isn't going to end, but I'm confident their are best practices that can benefit everyone, including surfers. Tourists like to play in the surf too, and having sandbars, in my opinion, makes it a better experience for everyone.

 

iv contacted surfrider in june right before they started replenishing my spot.didnt help at all,maybe I didn't speak to the right people,but nothing happened,replinishment is done,and the waves are gone.they just don't care about surfers in the northeast.certain countries passed laws forbidding pumping sand or turning a surfspot into a marina.thats why it sucks being a surfer in the northeast.in Australia,they pumped sand out at snapper and kirra to improve the wave quality,same thing in ca with Malibu.they prevented trestles from turning into a highway multiple times.and we cant stop a few bulldozers.id say if they wanted to turn bayhead into a port,they would do it without the slightest form of protesting.we tried to rally people before the summer to protest,nothing happened.i guess everyone don't care until its too late.i even tried contacting frank Pallone,who is the congressman who approved the whole replenishment,again nothing happened.if they would've left the sand how it was after sandy,theyd be having wct events in nj,pros from all over would want to surf the perfect sandy bottom breaks.that lasted 5 months.the only 5 months I actually witnessed world class waves in my backyard.now they are just regular waves with lots of closeouts

 

I remember reading last summer,how the acoe said sandbars are dangerous for people.thats how people get sucked out in rips,and their goal was to remove them.sandbars actually save lives,when u know how to work with them.i seen regular civilians who don't know much about the ocean,get pulled out,and then they hit a sandbar and can stand up,catch their breath and swim in.no sandbar no wave

 

I lost my home for 4 1/2 months, and I was one of the first to move back here, where it's still a total disaster, yet because I only live here for surfing, I have to hope there's another monster storm, which is a really weird feeling... these total a-hole political douchebags called surfrider are a total waste of money for us here and always have been, as they do nothing for us and nothing for Hatteras, either, since they're more concerned about cal and other far-off lands. we'd need a real lobby group with real billions behind to ever see anything done, and I don't see the rich corporate scum nj surfers doing a thing, because they're really just kooks.

 

The did the first pumping in the late 90s. Most spots were ruined and it took years for them to come back. Now that many are finally showing again after Sandy they are ruining them again.
They do come back but it takes a long time in most cases. It takes a lot more than 2-3 swells for them to come back. Monmouth Beach and Long Branch were never the same...7 presidents was ruined for many years. SEa Bright never came back because all the sand just keep moving north. ANd the Cove is nothing like it used to be in the 80s and 90s.
I agree, it's still money down the drain because it doesn't stop a major storm like Sandy. If anything it just dumped all that sand on the streets