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Random Quote: If you pop a beer at the dock at 6 am they call you a sportsman, do it at home and they call you a drunk.
Our plan is to get as many people as possible to contact Joe Sangiovanni, Brick Council President, to try to get Brick to work something out with the Fish & Wildlife Service, who own F-Cove.
I will try to get a contact email address for Joe.
Just out of curiosity, what does the "F" stand for?
If you look at an overhead view of the cove it is in the shape of an F. I think it was orignally a man-made lagoon and the surrounding land was turned into parkland preventing development.
The organizations working to close this public access are:
The American Littoral Society
The Army Corps of Engineers
The New Jersey Department of Transportation, and
The US Fish & Wildlife Service
These agencies' reasons would be (1) to use the deep lagoons as a dredge spoil site, (2) to create new wetlands so that builders can be allowed to destroy wetlands in other parts of the state, (3) to restore wildlife habitat, and (4) to tighten up on management of the Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge.
Save Barnegat Bay opposes this plan. Thousands of boaters enjoy this natural setting on weekends over the course of the summer.
The government employees contemplating this step need to stop and ask themselves what the purpose of government actually is. To deny thousands of people in the state of New Jersey this simple enjoyment merely for the sake of disposing of dredge spoils or for the sake of recreating a few acres of wetlands is to lose sight of the very purpose of government, which was originally to benefit people.
Stay tuned to this site during the winter in order to be updated on how you can help save F Cove. You may be able to help by writing letters or attending a hearing.
To get some idea of what the government is trying to do, open this enormous 753 page Army Corps of Engineers report and scroll to page 164. (This large document takes a very long time to load. http://www.nap.usace.army.mil/Projec...Volume%203.pdf)
Holy Sheeeeeet for the first time in history and probably the last I will have to agree with something Save The Barnegat Bay stands for.
Here are the email for the rest of the gang here in Brick.
Joseph Sangiovanni - President
Ruthanne Scaturro
Dan Toth - Vice President
Brian DeLuca
Anthony Mathews
Kathy M. Russell
Micheal Thulen, Sr.
The email address for the above council members: council@twp.brick.nj.us
Steve Acropolis email: mayor@twp.brick.nj.us
Get busy guys F Cove is a place I take the grand babies a couple of times a week. Sure there are plenty of drunk a-holes and a few strippers around; plus dueling radios; but that is a police problem. F Cove is about 75 feet from where the Brick Marine Cops keep their boats. So any kind of enforcement should not be a problem. For some reason it is though. Maybe in your same emails you could ask Brick to step up patrols.
By the way be careful of Save the Bay dudes and their true motives. I bet they want it to stay open with steel pipes blocking the entrance. All those powerboats driven up on the banks is not what Save the Bay wants to see either.
Until then Go Save the Barnegat Bay (you bunch of marsh grass hugging a-holes)
Ok here is the email I just sent to Sangiovanni and the council members.
copy it and add your name and address.
I have a special email for Steve Acropolis.
Dear Council President Sangiovann and council members,
It has come to my attention several New Jersey State and Federal agencies want to close F-Cove. As a resident and business owner in Brick I urge you work with the US Fish & Wildlife Service, the owners of the site, to arrive at a mutually agreeable way to keep F-Cove open for all boaters to safely enjoy. Brick should step up to plate and agree provide better police oversight of F-Cove. On any summer weekend F-Cove is buzzing with folks enjoying themselves maybe only second to Tices Shoal. Please speak up for the Brick's boating public.
I just received a phone call from Mayor Acropolis. He is looking into the matter as I type. The Mayor and the Council do NOT want to see F-Cove closed. The Mayor did mention the last he knew of this subject was when Brick was in discussions with Fish and Wildlife to dump dredge spoils in F-Cove. Brick and the Mayor said that was just totally unacceptable. I will report on any new information from Brick.
Agreeing with the “Save Barnegat Bay” jerks is like agreeing with the ACLU.
I and my neighbors helped them to fight building a Home Depot on the wetlands at the corner of Fischer and Hooper in Toms River and then they tried to force that 30mph speed limit into place citing our “membership” and support. When we told them they were wrong and didn’t support anything like a 30mph, 7 day a week speed limit they basically told us that there was nothing we could do about it.
That said I’m all for keeping F-Cove open. On a personal note I take my kids wakeboarding and tubing in Silver Bay all the time and we definitely don’t need the increase in boat traffic there. Inevitably that’s were a large amount those boats would wind up.
So I’m in for letter writing, phone calls or what ever it takes to keep F-Cove open.
F-Cove made the front of the Ausbury Park Press today. While the plan is not a bad idea, cut canals between the L-Cove, F-Cove and the Metedaconk and fill in some of the depth. The end of the proposal is to limit boats and no power boats. Hopefully some of the project can be done like the canals, bring the depth up in L-Cove (no access for bigger power boats anyway), cleaning up the berms, and better policing of the coves( too many drunk a-holes) Brick could make some real money with a breath analyzer and get the drunks off the water ( like I see on those TV shows).
When we told them they were wrong and didn’t support anything like a 30mph, 7 day a week speed limit they basically told us that there was nothing we could do about it.
Oh there was plenty we were able to do about it.... :D
Myself and many others rallied tons of support to fight the Speed Limit not once but twice.
The second time I just had to close the deal with photographs of the local sailing association's chase boats charging full speed ahead through the Slow Speed No Wake Zones and in front of marinas.
I could not make the meeting, but I heard the looks on their faces were priceless...
Good luck to you guys ,big brother at its best, trying to restrict the tax payer more and more, with our own tax dollars ,so much for a free country ,lets wait and see in a few more years ,things that we normally do now will soon be a crime thanks to the goverment we elect to work against us .
Hello Sharkey,
After I contacted Brick and the Mayor called me to discuss the issues. They issued a resolution that Brick was NOT in favor of closing F-Cove. Brick stands united with the concept of keeping F-Cove as it is. They are not our enemy; but our ally. I met with both Council President Sandiovanni and Mayor Acropolis and Brick is in full support of keeping F-Cove open.
What we need to do is go at the guys at the State and Federal level. That is where the effort to close F-Cove originates. While it is a good idea to continue to contact Brick officials you need to get the contact information for not only the congressmen; but our Senators. While you are at it post up the emails of the:
The American Littoral Society
The Army Corps of Engineers
The New Jersey Department of Transportation, and
The US Fish & Wildlife Service
These are the guys who want to shut down F-Cove
Respectfully,
Charlie Haws
I heard that they were closing it because the cast of the "Jersey Shore" went there and created an oil slick from their hair after swimming in the water. Just what I heard.
Good Luck....my advice: Vote for Change in November....Real Change....not the communist BS.....
They are trying to close everything down, from coves, to islands, to fishing seasons.....they'd radther you sit at home on the weekends and do nothing, boating is not one of their favorite activities....and they think you shouldn't enjoy it either.
Help Stop The Closure of the F-COVE !!! 
