Has the TR MUA completed their work with the sewer system?

So.... Seaside Heights and south?

Bay Head?

Glad we can drink it in Ortley Beach, too bad we can't move in. There is no plan in place to repopulate Ortley residents.

Ortley Beach..............
No reentry, no electric, no use, no taxes?

We have had a utility pole in our parking lot since the storm with a trasformer connected to it. This has hampered our clean up effort for two months and we have had no help from JCPL even after a dozen calls. The address is 1901 Bay Blvd. Ortley beach.Our patience are running thin

In case you haven't seen this article, there are no plans: http://tomsriver.patch.com/articles/early-jan-utilities-meeting-expected-to-shed-light-on-ortley-repopulation-schedule?track_event=view-follow-up.3041886#comment_5882353

Even if every utility in Ortley is up and running, it is doubtful that we will be able to "repopulate" our homes since Toms River apparently has no concrete plan to let us back.

Its great that everyone else can celebrate moving home except for ortley. I am happy for everyone else but homelessness is really taking a toll on my family members! They need to tend to their ortley homes too.

Once utilities are on and functioning, I don't need permission from TR to live in my home period!

Yikes! I would not drink the water if they paid me! Bring your own when you go over the bridge.

Patti K- TR may require a new CO.

today we went to get permits demolish our house in ortley to find out that whether we fix what's there or completely rebuild they're requiring it to be raised ten feet or flood insurance goes from 3000 a year to over 30000 a year and no homes are being grandfathered in...the insurance company only pays a max of 25000...so we'd have to pay more for a year of insurance than they'd even pay out...unfortunately with a mortgage we're trapped into keeping flood insurance...it's ironic too...just before all this we were remodeling getting ready to sell for a bigger house with 3 kids and only 2 small bedrooms...now we can't even sell it for enough to pay off what's left of the mortgage if anyone would even buy...what I would give for my family to have our tiny house back as opposed to sleeping on a concrete floor in a cold basement with my kids...but it doesn't look like rebuilding is possible at this point...insurance company will only pay for water damage, which was very little and fema won't help with anything being there wasn't enough damage .and they've deemed it habitable..it's all become a big catch 22...all I want is to go home but there's no way we can afford flood insurance that costs 5x the amount of our mortgage plus Tom's rivers insane property taxes when we have no idea when we can even return to our properties...

When I moved to NJ shore I looked at homes on the water. I knew that if flood insurance were required (which it was not for the homes I viewed) or there were a major storm that I was not in a position to replace the bulkhead or the small rancher on the property if they were damaged. I'm sorry to see dreams destroyed but I think Sandy will serve as a good lesson for anyone considering moving into a "shore" home. If you don't have the resources to replace EVERYTHING don't move on or near the water. The insurance companies will never help, ask all of the people in Florida and on the Gulf coast who were hit with huge flood insurance invoices after Katrina hit.

I left a comment yesterday see someone took it down, I guess they only want to see comments that don't infuriate the population. As displaced tax paying citizens we need to standup to the Gestapo tactics of local government keeping us from our homes

While taxpayers/homeowners of Ortley Beach languish in limbo-land, our Ward One Council woman Maria Maruca was too busy to attend the last TR Council meeting on 12/26/12 In addition 2 other Councilmen ( Manforti & Wittmann) failed to attend and a 4th Councilman Sevastakis ( dressed for a beach outing!) spent most of the meeting playing with his smart phone (see below link of meeting)! This is truly a sad, incompetent bunch and it looks like we're on our own! The message is crystal clear the Council could not care less.

Keeping Ortley Beach closed allows the FEMA tab to continue!

http://tomsriver.pegcentral.com/player.php?video=9fc7cb842bc34934dfb1bb508f1b1970

Most realize those who are on council in many different towns south, north, east and west are political clowns.

No doubt near the bottom of the very expansive list of priorities but,....any ideas when Island State Park may be reopening ?