Bill Barlow

UPPER TOWNSHIP — An offshore storm this week resolved concerns over the dwindling dune in front of Seaview Avenue in the northeast corner of Strathmere.

The dune is gone entirely.

On Sunday and Monday, three high tides flooded streets on barrier islands and washed sand from beaches, cutting cliffs into dunes and shrinking beaches. That’s meant fresh erosion in several areas, but few show as stark a difference this week as this section of Strathmere.

“It’s horrible,” said Mayor Curtis Corson during the storm. The storm exposed rocks and a timber bulkhead put in place decades ago to hold back waves, part of a long, long battle to protect properties and infrastructure from rising water.

In 2023, a multimillion-dollar U.S. Army Corps of Engineers beach project added tons of sa

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