Boardwalk re-decking work could wrap up in late April

Continued from Page 1 the fall and is currently a week ahead of schedule, Mauser said. Right now, the completion projection for the whole project is late April.

“We want to stay as far ahead of schedule as we can,” Mauser said, pointing out the need to finish before the the start of major spring events.

Crews are replacing more than 80,000 boards and using more than a million nails to complete the second phase of the project, which only has from Fourth to 12th streets left to finish. Mauser said the contractor focused first on the most southern portion of the area, from Ripley’s Believe It or Not! near the inlet, to Fourth Street. They then tackled 12th to 15th streets and are focusing now on the middle area. Last year, crews re-decked the northern portion of the Boardwalk from 27th to 15th streets.

Mauser said the contractor is stacking the used wood in the inlet parking lot and selling some of it as memoirs. The reminder, he said, will be sold to a company in Florida to reuse on projects down there.