February 9, 2010
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Resort Pleased With Boardwalk Snapshot

  OCEAN CITY — Ocean City officials have found less deterioration to the infrastructure of the Boardwalk than they had expected to find, but that doesn’t mean that their plan to reconstruct the entire landmark in the next few years has been tabled. After the bid to replace the decking of the Boardwalk between 12th and 13th streets was awarded in December, town officials revealed their long-term plans for a serious and major Boardwalk project that would address the aging infrastructure and perhaps alter the aesthetic of one of the town’s most treasured tourist attraction. “The section between 12th and 13th streets was deemed to be in the worst shape as far as the decking goes, so we figured that when we got a look at how the infrastructure was faring under the deck, we’d get a snapshot of the condition of the Boardwalk as a whole,” said Public Works Director Hal Adkins on Wednesday. What they found, however, was a bit of a surprise to Adkins, as the whalers and stringers (two main components of the infrastructure system beneath the Boardwalk deck) weren’t showin... [more]
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