Depends I think on how damaged other, deeper ports are. Is Cape May the only port within a few hundred miles still capable of being used? Are the other more suitable (prewar) facilities nothing more than molten radioactive slag?
Dredging is serious business and not to be undertaken lightly. It's going to take a lot of time and expense.
Perhaps the nukes and changing climatic conditions have contributed to changing ocean currents thereby helping to clear the silt from the port? Lack of rain in the catchment areas would also minimise new silt being deposited by runoff. It's as good an explaination as any for why a Destroyer was able to access the docks....
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