19th century map shows that Wesley Lake (Long Pond) is an estuary. subject to riparian laws.
By Jack Bredin and Paul Goldfinger reporting from Blogfinger.net on March 10, 2018
As we said in our WASSUP section tickler below, there are those who are coming around to agreeing with Jack Bredin and Blogfinger that Wesley Lake, a waterway with an estuary legacy, is in fact owned by the State of New Jersey who has the authority to make declarations and offer permits about riparian rights.
Those entities include at least one member of the Wesley Lake Commission. Also the same information regarding Shark River was presented at a recent meeting conducted by two Ocean Grove lawyers, experts on riparian rights.
Unfortunately, those two lawyers did not mention Ocean Grove’s riparian concerns involving the Wesley Lake name change, the dumping of dirty street water from Neptune and Asbury Park into the Atlantic Ocean, and Fletcher Lake.
We at Blogfinger intend to continue our update about these matters, but, for those of you who want to know the background, here are some BF links that you should read or re-read. No other media source, nor the Township itself, or the useless Home Groaners, will offer you these insights. Every day we get at least 500 visits, so over a week or two, you can imagine how many different people might be seeing our posts about the Wesley Lake situation.
Here are some links for your review:
Who owns Wesley Lake 2016 BF post
2017 post on renaming Wesley Lake
Wesley Lake history with Ted Bell BF 2017
Environmentalist comments
Editor’s note: We hope to move this ball up the field shortly, so watch for our latest 2019 update.
ANITA O’DAY AND CAL TJADER:
Blogfinger aptly describes environmental and political problems relating to despicable conditions of Wesley Lake.
Clarifying the owner is critical.
Equally important is identifying the advocate or team of advocates who will lead a clean-up crusade.
Look at lake’s “vested interests”:
*Asbury Park (governmental officials, major builders, realtors,
Chamber of Commerce) wishing to claim its popularity of yesteryear..
*Neptune Twp. Committee looking for oceanfront taxes on North End
future facilities
*Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association looking for North End ground rentals. Major builders and realtors also.
Potential for an effective team. Great motivation.
But who has critical community spirit to make it happen ?
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