AC Boardwalk Update…

Bulk Heading Construction on the city’s neglected northern shore is now underway.
The project will include a new seawall, new bulkheading and a new Boardwalk along Absecon Inlet. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is handling multiple construction phases, has begun to demolish the remaining cement Boardwalk pillars between Oriental and Atlantic avenues, and between Madison and Melrose avenues.
The demolition started in mid-August, Army Corps
The base of the contract is for $29.3 million, with options for additional work that could bring it up to $32.5 million, Rochette said. The Army Corps has contracted the work out to J. Fletcher, Creamer and Son, Rochette said.
The work is funded largely by the Army Corps, which is paying $21.4 million. An additional $10.1 million is coming from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, while $1.1 million will be paid by the city. A $600,000 grant from the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs is being used as well.
An excavator picked up large pieces of concrete and wood Friday and dropped them in a dump truck near Maine and Melrose avenues. Then it ripped down handrails.
Workers said the demolition of this specific block started Tuesday. On Friday, what was once Boardwalk was now a block-long section of sand.
The first structure, including boardwalk and seawall between Atlantic and Oriental avenues, will be about 1,350 feet long, Rochette said. The second similar section, between Madison and Melrose, will be about 350 feet long, he said.
There are also Boardwalk-only options in two areas: between Atlantic Avenue and Grammercy Place, and between Grammercy and Madison Avenue, Rochette said.
The project is expected to take at least a year, but could go beyond that time frame.

Once completed, the project will allow pedestrians and bikers to stroll or roll uninterrupted along the boards from Gardner’s Basin to Ventnor — for the first time in the resort’s history.

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