Construction is underway on a major infrastructure project in Atlantic City, designed for stormwater management in the city’s neighborhoods. The $22-million Baltic Avenue Canal improvement project will reactivate the Baltic Canal built in 1912 which drains 775-acres of the City that stretches from south of the Atlantic City Expressway to Absecon Inlet and serves portions of the Ducktown, Westside, Midtown, Bungalow Park, and Inlet neighborhoods.  The canal is 9,700 feet long, over ten feet wide and eight feet tall, and can store over 1.1 million cubic feet of stormwater when the flood gates are operational.

As part of the construction, six large pumps are being added to the Atlantis Avenue Flood Gate System to evacuate water during significant flooding events. The installation of the S.C.A.D.A. (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) will allow for automation from remote locations. Screening systems are being installed at both the Atlantis Avenue and Fisherman’s Park pump stations.  These systems are designed to remove all litter prior to discharge into the back bay waterways.

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