(Atlantic) The Atlantic City Council voted across the board to use the American Rescue Plan Act Funds towards the Bull Creek Renovation Project.
Atlantic City Administrator John Lund says the City of Atlantic received nearly one million dollars from the $350 billion pool for eligible state and local governments.
Lund says overall, the Bull Creek area on the southern end of the City involves 36-homes with property values totaling just under $5 million, with the average home costing around $136,354.00.
Originally the Bull Creek restoration project was budgeted at $985,331.25, which makes the $974,157.98 from the ARPA able to finance 98.7 percent of the project. Dave Sturm, an engineer from Snyder and Associates, says there’s a fifteen-foot easement on the east side of the creek on all of the properties.
Sturm recently viewed aerial photos taken 75-years ago and discovered it was a grass waterway when it was a farm field. He explained as housing development occurs, the water runoff is concentrated into smaller areas and causes erosion problems.
Bull Creek has been a controversial and historically complex stormwater management issue. It is considered a waterway of the U.S. and under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
