Wall Christmas Trees May Save Bradley Beach Homes
Discarded trees to be used to build sand dunes
The Christmas tree you threw out after the holiday just may prevent someone from losing their home in the next big storm. The Department of Public Works normally collects discarded Christmas trees after the holiday season, brings them to the public works yard and then turns them into wood chips. But not this year, Township Administrator Jeffry Bertrand said. This year the all trees collected are going to Bradley Beach, where that town is using them to bolster its sand dunes – a practice that officials there have said helped to gird against the worst of Hurricane Sandy’s wrath. “It’s a really good reuse,’’ Bertrand said at Wednesday’s meeting of the Township Committee. “And, frankly, it saves us money because we don’t have to spend the time…
