WILDWOOD – Record tides during this weekend’s winter storm cut off barrier islands so residents were unable to use coastal evacuation routes during the height of the storm Jan. 23.
According to a report in The Press of Atlantic City, roads and bridges were closed, cutting off access to the mainland for many coastal communities except for Cape May. The West Cape May Bridge remained open.
Officials told The Press of Atlantic City that building higher access roads, such as Sea Isle’s causeway, a $13 million, five-year project, which is being elevated 4.5 feet, is expensive and time-consuming.
While access roads may be part of the solution, another is fortifying the back bays, according to the report.
North Wildwood Mayor Patrick Rosenello told The Press of Atlantic City that measures could be taken to protect the bayside, like encasing bulkheads in concrete to create seawall-like barriers, but he doesn’t expect it to happen anytime soon, considering it took 50 years to install protection, such as dunes and seawalls, along the entire coast to keep the Atlantic Ocean from surging into cities soon after the historic March 1962 nor’easter.
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