The Tuckerton Borough Council approved on Monday, Dec. 6, a bonding ordinance for $2.2 million to dredge the mouths of lagoons on the east side of South Green Street in Tuckerton Beach. The bond ordinance also provides for a special assessment of $4,979 to be levied on each of the lagoon property owners.

Waterfront boat owners have been clamoring for the dredging going back to the 1990s when a botched dredging project led to additional mud settling in a portion of Kingfisher lagoon at the…