FREEHOLDER JOE MCDEVITT
RELEASE: Immediate
March 17, 2009
McDevitt Wants Stimulus
Funds Invested
to Enhance Emergency Evacuation Route
Atlantic County Freeholder
At-Large Joe McDevitt today called on Governor Jon Corzine
to allocate federal stimulus funds to construct a bulkhead
along Wellington/West End Avenue from Ventnor Heights to
Atlantic City.
“The CRDA is in the process of completing a similar flood
control project in the Venice Park section of Atlantic
City,” said McDevitt. “The Governor should allocate similar
resources on the other side of Atlantic City to prevent
flooding along a major portion of the County’s Emergency
Evacuation Route.”
In the event of a major
storm, thousands of Atlantic County residents would depend
on the Wellington/West End corridor to quickly evacuate the
island.
“There would be no better
use of federal stimulus funds than to invest them in
enhancing our Emergency Evacuation Routes,” said McDevitt.
“These routes are the backbone of our transportation
infrastructure upon which tens of thousands of Atlantic
County Residents rely.”
McDevitt also noted
that “The availability of federal funding for infrastructure
projects provides the perfect opportunity not only to take
this project off the drawing board, but to make it a reality
at the lowest possible expense to local property taxpayers.”
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CONTACT: Freeholder Joe
McDevitt
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