John Weber's Blog

Just in case you were wondering, a plastic, supermarket-sized grocery bag holds about eight pounds of bottle caps.  These were all picked up off the beaches of New Jersey, and they are all going to be recycled.   Read more »

The Press of Atlantic City did it again with an article about dumped chemical weapons at sea.  It is brought up in the context of offshore drilling, and it sure is scary to think about seismic testing or drilling through these old shells.  http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/184/story/289801.html  Read more »

Folks, this was in the news a few weeks ago so it caught my eye, http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/185/story/235585.html  In short there has been an increase in the number of back and spinal injuries in Cape May since beach replenishment projects started.

There was a follow up article here

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/181/story/239309.html

And then US Senator Frank Lautenberg called for an investigation.  Read more »

While I don't want this blog to be all about beach access, it is certainly an imporant issue to me and my organization is very supportive of the new beach access rules.  Somehow this one slipped by the Shore 11 news digest today.  http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/181/story/239308.html

There was an NJ Legislative Hearing on beach access earlier this month. I was denied access to the microphone, but had I spoken, the Senators and Assembly Members would have heard this: Some towns completely disregard the State's beach access rules, despite the fact that the State strengthened and clarified their rules earlier this year.  Read more »