Posted on May 8, 2017
Assemblyman Brian E. Rumpf (R-9th) will sit on the state Beach Erosion Commission. He was appointed last week by the speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly nearly five years after Superstorm Sandy left a wake of destruction through much of the Garden State’s coastal communities.
Rumpf said he believes his appointment will help him “better represent the interests of my constituents for whom this is a significant issue.”
In the aftermath of the October 2012 Superstorm, it was apparent that shore towns with newly replenished beaches fared better than those municipalities in need of beach replenishment, the assemblyman said.
Support for beach improvement projects is not only essential to public safety and property preservation but to safeguard the Jersey Shore as “one of the most critical areas of the state economy,” Rumpf said. “The Jersey Shore remains a top tourist destination for this region of the country.”
Along with 9th District Sen. Christopher J. Connors and Assemblywoman DiAnne C. Gove, Rumpf supported Gov. Christie’s 2013 executive order allowing the state to move forward with dune construction projects to protect the Garden State’s coastal communities.
The local delegation was the major sponsor of legislation creating the Coastal New Jersey Evacuation Task Force. Rumpf was the vice-chairman of the task force, which lobbied for supplemental transportation funding to the Golf Coast area following hurricanes Katrina and Rita there.
Source: The SandPaper.net
