Ocean Sediment Testing

[bobpbx]

I have a better suggestion. Stop building so close to the ocean. This seems pretty ridiculous to me.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150602/us-ocean-blasting-4b61236803.html

 

[manumuskin]

I have always said the same thing! Those barrier islands m0ve. Only a fool would build an expensive home there and a bigger fool would insure it.I might throw me up a shack.Something I"m not going to cry over as it floats away.

 

[Boyd]

Only a fool would build an expensive home there and a bigger fool would insure it.

And only an ever bigger fool would pay to rebuild someone else's expensive home. We are those fools….

 

[Spung-Man]

I too worry about the inevitable. Development policy needs to be driven by science, not politics. If past behavior is relevant then we have not reached our normal interglacial highstand. That shoreline can be seen here on LiDAR imagery as a bathtub ring around the Delaware Bay.

http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.30878418243226&lng=-75.13062842163083&z=13&type=lidar&gpx=

https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/lidar-in-the-pines-very-cool.6936/page-3#post-94676​

Then add two other factors to the mix. First we are adding abundant greenhouse gasses that enhance atmospheric heating and polar ice melt. Second, South Jersey's Coastal Plain appears to be sinking faster then other coastal areas in response to the loss of 1 to 3-mile-thick continental ice sheet just to our north. As NY and New England rise, we sink being on the lower end of the isostasy seesaw. Early on I was not a big fan of this "forebulge" theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forebulge), but new evidence suggests that maybe as much as 50% of NJ's sea level rise might be associated with this subsidence. Perhaps some of this subsidence can be attributed to groundwater over-withdrawal.

S-M

 

[46er]

It's all a ruse. Getting ready for the oil and gas well's say some enviroMENTALISTS.

"Seismic Airgun Blasting for Oil and Gas Exploration
For three decades, the COAlition along with a national network has worked to successfully keep oil and gas activities in the mid-Atlantic region at bay. Regrettably, after years of being under a bipartisan drilling moratorium supported by Presidents and Congress alike, the Atlantic Ocean is back in play, and energy companies are looking to start drilling as soon as possible. Exploration could begin as soon as 2015 with seismic testing being used to look for potential oil and gas deposits.

Fortunately, COA fosters strong bipartisan federal and state opposition to oil and gas activities off the New York/New Jersey coast and organizations, businesses, and citizens are ready to rally and take action to save our coast and marine life. This pressure has given our region a temporary "amnesty" from the worst oil threats by excluding NY and NJ from oil drilling. Of course, risks remain from seismic testing and oil drilling anywhere in the Atlantic Ocean off the US coast, since the blasts of seismic airguns can be heard for hundreds of miles and any oil spills occurring in the mid or south Atlantic risk being carried northward to our shores by the Gulf Stream. For this reason, COA continues to work with a national network of organizations unified against the development of oil and gas resources in the Atlantic Ocean." - COA

 

[Boyd]

Development policy needs to be driven by science, not politics.

The solution would be really simple. Just phase out the government flood insurance program for such high risk areas. If a homeowner needs this kind of insurance, let them pay a fair free market price instead of one subsidized by taxpayers. But I doubt this will ever happen, because of politics.

 

[46er]

"Development policy needs to be driven by science, not politics."

You left out the dominant driver of any development, money.

 

[Boyd]

And the government has their finger on the scale there too by insuring your losses if you build in risky areas. And when there's a disaster, they provide funds to rebuild stuff that never should have been there in the first place.