Long Beach Township faced a few voices of opposition at Monday’s Board of Commissioners meeting, but ultimately adopted, on second reading, an ordinance that would allow for the dredging of various tidal lagoons and inlet areas within the High Bar Harbor section of the municipality.

Ordinance 13-18 provides for the “mechanical maintenance dredging of bottom sediments from various tidal lagoons and inlet areas of High Bar Harbor and the Barnegat Bay in the High Bar Harbor section of the township…