The  court  is  asked  to  enjoin  the  U.S.  Army  Corps  of  Engineers,  the  state
Department  of  Environmental  Protection  and  the  state  Division  of  Water
Policy  and  Supply  to  stop  issuing  dredging  and  filling  permits  and  to  halt
the  issuing  of  land  grants  for  the  island.
It  is  asked  further  that  Middle  Township  and  Mayor  Leroy  H.  May,  Jr.
be  ordered  specifically  to  repeal  a  zoning  variance  which  has  allowed  the
developers  to  "store  sand"  on  a  segment  of  the  island.
Other  defendants  named  in  the  suit  are  U.S.  Secretary  of  the  Army  Stanley
A.  Resor,  U.S.  Army  district  engineer  Col.  James  A.  Johnson  and  commissioner
Richard  J.  Sullivan  of  the  Department  of  Environmental  Protection.
The  Izaak  Walton  groups  says  that  because  of  tidal  action,  the  island  waters
are  rich  in  the  production  of  fish  and  other  marine  life  and  the  area,  as  a
nursery  and  feeding  ground,  is  essential  to  the  success  of  commercial  and
sports  fishing  all  along  the  Continental  Shelf  of  the  Atlantic  Ocean.
The  suit  proposes  that  the  money  in  damages,  if  awarded,  be  put  in  a
trust  fund  to  aid  in  the  "protection  and  restoration  of  the  marine  and  marine-
related  resources  of  Cape  May  County  and  the  Middle  Atlantic  Eco  (ecologi-
cal System."

Suggested  as  administrators  of  the  trust  are  the  Department  of  Environ-
mental Protection  and  the  Bureau  of  Sport  Fisheries  and  Wildlife  of  the  U.S.
Department  of  the  Interior.
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The  court  is  asked  to  tell  the  developers  to  remove  all  the  dikes  and  other
"impediments,"  including  the  sand  storing  area  which  impede  the  tides  and
block  the  navigable  waters  "on  and  around"  the  island.  The  developers  also
should  be  enjoined  from  developing  all  portions  of  the  island  north  of  Avalon
blvd.,  the  suit  says.
