Weather.com - Wayne Perry, 11/20/12
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Piles of sand are all that remain where the Belmar N.J. boardwalk used to stand, in a Nov. 15, 2012 photo. Superstorm Sandy took a bite out of the Jersey shore, washing away millions of tons of sand and slimming down beaches along the state’s 127-mile coastline.
SPRING LAKE, N.J. — The average New Jersey beach is 30 to 40 feet narrower after Superstorm Sandy, according to a survey that is sure to intensify a long-running debate on whether federal dollars should be used to replenish stretches of sand that only a fraction of U.S. taxpayers use.
The shore town of Mantoloking, one of the hardest-hit communities, lost 150 feet of beach, said Stewart Farrell, director of and a leading expert on beach erosion.
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