Beginning back in 2019, Long Beach Township provided its property owners with numerous notices to install new water meters, even pushing back the deadline multiple times to accommodate hardship due to the coronavirus pandemic. The  2020 date for compliance has come and gone. Now, according to Commissioner Ralph Bayard, residents who have not yet installed the meters will receive a letter stating they have until Jan. 29 to do so, after which date “we will be issuing summonses.”

As the township website, longbeachtownship.com, states, “If you currently have a meter you still must purchase a remote…