Longtime resident has no sympathy for swamped boater

I recently read an article in a local newspaper about a man who recently moved here from New York City, who, along with some of his neighbors, want Brick Township to dredge the Beaver Dam Creek. He claims that he bought a 30-foot boat and it got stuck in the mud.

I am not surprised. He lives on a creek. I don’t know how long he has lived here, but if he did any research about the waters and the boating in his area, he would know that people have much smaller boats because they live on a creek –– that is the way it is and always was.

If tomorrow, he decides to add a flying bridge to his boat, then, according to his logic, it would be the town’s responsibility to make the bridge between Princeton Avenue and Midstreams Road a drawbridge.

When someone buys a house in a quiet neighborhood off the beaten path, and is at the end of a quaint waterway where canoes and open skiffs are the norm, don’t expect all the taxpayers of this township to come in and pay for an improvement that will change the neighborhood because you can’t get your big boat into a place that was meant for boats much smaller. I have been a boater for 30 years and at no time did I ever expect my fellow taxpayers to bail me out of a situation because I failed to do the necessary research.

Robert Kazawic

Brick