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Atlantic County adopts amended resolution urging state to withdraw or revise DEP coastal regulations
Summary
After a technical presentation and public comment, the Atlantic County Board of Commissioners amended and adopted a resolution asking the state to withdraw or revise proposed DEP coastal regulations, citing economic and infrastructure impacts on the county's barrier islands and river communities.
Peter Lomax of the Lomax Consulting Group told the Atlantic County Board of Commissioners the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's proposed coastal regulations would use a planning horizon through the year 2100 and apply a conservative five-foot sea-level-rise projection, creating a new “inundation risk zone” and raising the 100-year flood elevation by five feet.
"It puts 59,000 acres of Atlantic County into the inundation risk zone," Lomax said, calling that just under 17% of the county's land mass and warning that nearly 30% of the county could fall into expanded flood hazard areas. He described regulatory effects that would require deed notices, separate…
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