Point Pleasant Beach, NJ Coastal Erosion Rate
Is the coast eroding 0.5 miles north of Point Pleasant Beach, NJ?
Nothing alarming measured 0.5 miles north of Point Pleasant Beach, NJ: whatever shift USGS's transects picked up here is too small to call reliably one way or the other, which this site reports as "no significant trend" rather than forcing a direction.
What "Point Pleasant Beach" means on this page
Point Pleasant Beach, NJ is the nearest named place, 0.5 miles away, to a ~3.5-mile stretch of coast USGS has surveyed - the reading below covers that whole stretch, not a single property in it. Segment center: 40.10, -74.05. The survey behind it runs to 2007-2009, in USGS's New England / Mid-Atlantic assessment, using the LRR method. Shoreline surveys aren't repeated every year, so this is the most recent long-term measurement USGS has published for this coast, not a live reading.
What backs this reading up
Averaging 104 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 80% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. Uncertainty on this specific number: 0.75 ft/yr either side. The unadjusted figure here, -0.47 ft/yr, would place it 307 of 1211 if ranked directly - but an unreliable rank isn't a useful one, which is exactly why "no significant trend" is the headline instead. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2010-1119. Manzanita, OR sits at national rank 1133 for growth (1.28 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 2513 miles from here. Mantoloking, NJ, 3.5 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, itself no significant trend.
Point Pleasant Beach, NJ on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.