For decades, residents of Paradise Cove, a small waterfront community on Thompson Creek in Tuckerton borough, have been pushing for dredging. The fight has been comprehensive – residents have reached out for help from the borough, the county, the state and even the federal government, but their efforts have so far been futile.

After years of fighting, many are reaching their breaking point.

“Forty years we’ve been talking about this,” said Edgewater Drive resident Paul Solimani, who started the Paradise Cove and Uplander Association a few years ago as…