The hottest topic at the three-hour-long Little Egg Harbor Township Committee meeting on April 14 was, unsurprisingly, dredging. The topic was so pervasive, in fact, it barely made it to the public comment portion. It leached its way into discussions regarding separate, and only slightly related, ordinances.

Joan Richardson of Mystic Island approached the podium to question Ordinance 114, which authorizes special projects engineer Jason Worth of T&M Associates to conduct a drone inspection…