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Lawmakers hear competing approaches for coastal resilience: buyouts, beach nourishment and managed retreat
Summary
Witnesses described a mix of approaches to coastal adaptation'Blue Acres buyouts, federal beach nourishment, nature-based restoration and managed-retreat tools'and stressed the need for stable funding and attention to equity and affordable housing siting.
Legislators heard a range of adaptation strategies for coastal New Jersey, from federal-state buyouts to large-scale beach nourishment and nature-based restoration, and they were pressed to confront trade-offs involving municipal budgets, equity and affordable housing siting.
The DEP and NJOEM witnesses described the Blue Acres buyout program and how federal funding, state matching and long project timelines interact. Angarone and an NJOEM mitigation officer said the state has received hundreds of buyout applications: "Since the storm we've received over 630 applications," the mitigation witness said, adding that the state has been able to…
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