AVALON – Amid a list of routine annual contract renewals presented to Avalon Borough Council Dec. 12 was one asking for a $9,000 increase in funding for the municipality’s government affairs consultant. Business Administrator Scott Wahl said that the money was needed to continue the struggle with U.S. Fish and Wildlife.
The federal agency is responsible for recent rulings that prevent federal beach replenishment funds from being used to borrow sand from Hereford Inlet.
Prior to the last replenishment effort, the inlet had been an accessible area for borrowing sand. In 2016, a last-minute effort by state officials made some funds available for the beach nourishment, but the Army Corps of Engineers was still required to run a pipe the length of Avalon in order to pump sand from northern borrow areas to complete Avalon’s replenishment and to supply Stone Harbor’s north-end beaches.
Wahl said the lobbying effort would seek a legislative solution to the impasse in order to avoid renewed litigation.
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