New Jersey surf beaches battle overcrowding

By: shannond | July 3rd, 2009 at 10:38am

"Overcrowding on the surf beaches has always been a bit of a concern, and something that most local surfers have learned to live with, but that doesn't mean they think it's an ideal situation by any means.

Despite the town of Ocean City adding the Inlet as a surf beach during the week two years ago, bringing the total to three during the week, there are some in the surfing community who think there is not enough room on the beaches for the hordes of summer wave-riders.

The current surf beach system, which has rotating locations, one in the uptown and one in the downtown area of Ocean City, has been in place since the early 1980's when then-Councilmen Leighton Moore, who owns Seacrets, and Ed Ellis, who owns Ocean Petroleum, urged the council to institute the two-beach system."

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