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