A good chunk of Atlantic City’s Garden Pier is getting chopped off and dumped for a worthwhile cause – to become reef for the fish off of Ocean City, NJ.

The plan is to create wildlife habitat—and not for the the sort of wildlife usually associated with Atlantic City, Ocean City’s sassier neighbor one island up the coast.

If conditions cooperate, state Fish and Wildlife officials will dump concrete columns and pedestals removed from Atlantic City’s Garden Pier in three nearby locations 9 miles off the coast of Ocean City on April 22.

The concrete should bolster what is known as the Great Egg Harbor Reef, a man-made structure that shelters marine life.

It’s about time something was done with the dilapidated end of the Garden Pier.  It’s been in horrible shape for a while now.  At least the government is attempting to make good use out of this stuff to attempt to improve area fishing.

At one point in time Revel was interested in buying the Garden Pier.  Since this is being Revel casino is overseeing this project one would have to wonder if the government paying for this removal was part of getting Revel back on course to be built.

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