Proceedings of Eighth Annual Meeting 55 



west of them, as it were, and after they have gotten their house 

 all cleaned they promise to come up and clean house for us. We 

 are living in hopes on that problem just the same as we are with 

 some of the others. 



I do not think we have in Ocean County any particular problem 

 that is different from anybody else, except perhaps that in the 

 northern part of our bay, Barnegat Bay. There the rise and fall 

 of tide is only a few inches, less than six, and the meadows there, 

 part of them, are very soft and flexible and it is impossible to keep 

 and maintain a ditch. But so far the breeding on those meadows 

 has not been very great. 



Now when we come down a little further south, about the Forked 

 River district, the neighborhood of Barnegat, in which we find the 

 bay shore sand appears, we will cut a nice, beautiful ditch across 

 the meadows and let it drain into the bay today and it is all right. 

 A northeast storm or a heavy wind from somewhere comes up and 

 we go and look for this ditch and nature has put a nice little sand- 

 bar across the end of it. To offset that we have right angle ditches 

 and run them away into the creeks and bayous that put out into the 

 meadows. In that way they have gotten along with the job pretty 

 well. 



Along the beaches we have a problem there where the ocean used 

 to go over and join the bay, with a line of sandhills, leaving a 

 natural pocket right in the middle. Now that is one of the hardest 

 pieces of drainage that you can get. You have got to cut through 

 that rim of sandhill or find some outlet which is equivalent and 

 then you have got to take care of the mouth of that ditch. The 

 County of Ocean has not done very much of that work. We have 

 had a very good friend in the state and they have done a certain 

 amount of work and we have let them tackle that difficult problem. 

 I think that we ought to have some description later on, if the 

 members are interested in it, as to how this has been handled. A 

 large wooden trunk has been sunk in the sand. I personally have 

 not seen it so I am not able to describe it, but it is quite a problem, 

 and we think it has been solved, by which those glades can be 

 drained, kept open by the force of gravity, in spite of the sand 

 sometimes covering the tip end of this trunk as it goes out in this 

 sand shore of the bay. But we have got a good many records of 

 them and it is pretty expensive, but we are making progress. So 

 that is the biggest problem we have in our territory. 



I do not know that there is anything else that can be added at 



