How does the sand get on New Jersey beaches?

Through the natural process of erosion, New Jersey's beaches are constantly losing sand back into the ocean. The dredge vessel, Liberty Island, brings it back so beachgoers can enjoy the shore.
(Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

[@JerseyShoreShellingMama]

All I want to know is where do the shells go that get pumped?

[@earthwatcher2012]

need to work on your seamless audio beds of natural sound under the channel 1 voice audio

[@azraelidris1080]

Kills all the wildlife.

[@leoaksil4085]

No

[@azraelidris1080]

Sebastian MARCIANO yea ... it does ...you should dive before vs after.. or maybe fish .... easy to tell and see. But $$ will make people say anything.

[@unguidedone]

what a waste of tax dollars

[@e.l.norton]

Look at how many tax dollars the beaches generate and say that. It's one of the few examples of govt spending that you get a return on.

[@PerthTowne]

@@e.l.norton Beach nourishment only lasts maybe three or four years before it has to be done again, because the ocean is constantly eroding any sediment you put on a beach. It's tremendously expensive. And by the way, we all get a lot of "return" on many examples of government spending. If you drive on a highway, use an airport, send your kids to public school, use police and fire protection, that's all government spending. I"m no sure that beach nourishment returns as much as all of that.

[@e.l.norton]

@@PerthTowne The return on the beaches is measured in the billions of dollars they generate each summer. In addition to millions from access dollars are the dollars spent with the innumerable small businesses ranging from motels, to restaurants, to amusements, to you name it. On top of THAT is the mountain of toll dollars the state collects from summer day-trippers going to use said beaches. Given the disastrous quality of education in our schools, poorly maintained roads and bridges, and the outrageous costs of benefits, etc associated with cops, the beaches are probably the only investment that actually produce any kind of a return.

[@PerthTowne]

@@e.l.norton The "return" you and every other citizen gets for the use of roads, air transportation, public schools, and the services of fire fighters and police officers, just to name a handful of government services, cannot be compared to the ability a small percentage of the population has to take beach day trips.

[@e.l.norton]

@@PerthTowne You're not getting it. They generate BILLIONS in revenues. That money enables an entire regional economy that generates TAX REVENUES that fund all the shit you're talking about. They not teach this stuff in school anymore?

[@RH421939]

waste of money and thanks to this pumping the fishing has sucked