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If you are opposed to offshore wind and Atlantic Shores’ proposed cable route through Atlantic City, it is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT that you show up and speak out at the August 14, 2024 Atlantic City Council meeting at City Hall, Suite 303, 1301 Bacharach Blvd, at 5:00 PM on August 14, 2024. (please note the city can pull this from the agenda at any time, but the expected vote will be at the August 14 meeting).
If you are an Atlantic City resident, property owner, or you own a business in the city, you especially need to be present and your voice needs to be heard! If you know someone with a personal stake in Atlantic City, but they’re not on this email list, please feel free to share this newsletter with them!
Atlantic Shores wants Atlantic City to give up valuable parkland so they can run their high voltage cables through Atlantic City Beaches, under the Boardwalk (by the Beer Garden near Ritz Condominiums), through the streets near historic landmark buildings & homes, around Sovereign School, through Pete Palitto Field, around the AC Boathouse and across Bader Field. These cables will then run up to Egg Harbor Township where they can then connect to the power grid.
These are not your typical utility cables. They are 12.6″ in diameter and the HVDC cables can have up to 525,000 Volts of electricity. They will emit levels of EMF radiation (electromagnetic field radiation) at levels well above thoses that are deemed “safe” from peer reviewed scientific studies. Atlantic Shores is using outdated values for “safety levels” from the WHO and ICNIRP from 2007. In 2011 they stated their numbers need to be updated, but they never updated them. PubMed has meta-studies that are more recent, more inclusive with more stringent criteria. Why isn’t Atlantic Shores using this updated data when deciding on the health and well being of the people of Atlantic City?
If you are against Atlantic City giving up these valuable, protected, parcels of land to Atlantic Shores and putting the people of Atlantic City at risk, please voice your concerns. Atlantic Shores has options that don’t involve this much disruption to the people of Atlantic City – why must they go THROUGH the city when they can go AROUND the city.
If you know anyone in the Ritz Condominiums and/or Ocean Club Condominiums, please pass along to them. The cable route (and Atlantic Landfall Site) will directly impact their properties.
The route they are proposing as of today is indicated with the RED line:
The Atlantic Landfall Site is the parking lot (Park Place) next to the Ritz Condominiums. This parking lot is going to be converted to a construction site where they will be digging four 11.5 ft wide x 46 ft. long by 14. 8 ft deep utility vaults, and running their HDD equipment. It will be NOISY! There will be vibrations and potential damage to the properties next to this equipment from the digging and vibrations. Who is going to be held responsible if there is structural damage and buildings need to be repaired, or worse yet, vacated?
HDD equipment will be used to dig underground, under the boardwalk to bring the cables from the ocean onshore.
The Sound Level they “anticipate” can be found in this figure below. The yellow area will be 65 decibels (per their report). You can be pretty sure that this will be occurring many, many hours in a day and over many weeks. The construction plan for the project calls for 2 – 3 years. Also note there are parts of their written Construction and Operations Plan of May 2024 that indicates decibel levels as high as 77! They also say “intermittent increases in noise levels are expected during construction…”.
The cables and our beaches will look like this (below). Do you want to be living near this?
Atlantic Shores has stated in their documents that the export cables which will operate at peak loads of 349 mG versus studies which determine that 4 mG is potentially dangerous, especially to children and pregnant women.
Please show up and speak up at the Council Meeting on August 14, 2025 @ 5 pm to tell Atlantic City Council not to allow Atlantic Shores to do this. Atlantic Shores needs to find another, safer, less intrusive route for their cables.
City Hall Atlantic City,
1301 Bacharach Blvd
Atlantic City, NJ 08401
Atlantic City, NJ 08401
If you are opposed to offshore wind and Atlantic Shores’ proposed cable route through Atlantic City, it is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT that you show up and speak out at the August 14, 2024 Atlantic City Council meeting at City Hall, Suite 303, 1301 Bacharach Blvd, at 5:00 PM on August 14, 2024. (please note the city can pull this from the agenda at any time, but the expected vote will be at the August 14 meeting).
If you are an Atlantic City resident, property owner, or you own a business in the city, you especially need to be present and your voice needs to be heard! If you know someone with a personal stake in Atlantic City, but they’re not on this email list, please feel free to share this newsletter with them!
Atlantic Shores wants Atlantic City to give up valuable parkland so they can run their high voltage cables through Atlantic City Beaches, under the Boardwalk (by the Beer Garden near Ritz Condominiums), through the streets near historic landmark buildings & homes, around Sovereign School, through Pete Palitto Field, around the AC Boathouse and across Bader Field. These cables will then run up to Egg Harbor Township where they can then connect to the power grid.
These are not your typical utility cables. They are 12.6″ in diameter and the HVDC cables can have up to 525,000 Volts of electricity. They will emit levels of EMF radiation (electromagnetic field radiation) at levels well above thoses that are deemed “safe” from peer reviewed scientific studies. Atlantic Shores is using outdated values for “safety levels” from the WHO and ICNIRP from 2007. In 2011 they stated their numbers need to be updated, but they never updated them. PubMed has meta-studies that are more recent, more inclusive with more stringent criteria. Why isn’t Atlantic Shores using this updated data when deciding on the health and well being of the people of Atlantic City?
If you are against Atlantic City giving up these valuable, protected, parcels of land to Atlantic Shores and putting the people of Atlantic City at risk, please voice your concerns. Atlantic Shores has options that don’t involve this much disruption to the people of Atlantic City – why must they go THROUGH the city when they can go AROUND the city.
If you know anyone in the Ritz Condominiums and/or Ocean Club Condominiums, please pass along to them. The cable route (and Atlantic Landfall Site) will directly impact their properties.
The route they are proposing as of today is indicated with the RED line:
The Atlantic Landfall Site is the parking lot (Park Place) next to the Ritz Condominiums. This parking lot is going to be converted to a construction site where they will be digging four 11.5 ft wide x 46 ft. long by 14. 8 ft deep utility vaults, and running their HDD equipment. It will be NOISY! There will be vibrations and potential damage to the properties next to this equipment from the digging and vibrations. Who is going to be held responsible if there is structural damage and buildings need to be repaired, or worse yet, vacated?
HDD equipment will be used to dig underground, under the boardwalk to bring the cables from the ocean onshore.
The Sound Level they “anticipate” can be found in this figure below. The yellow area will be 65 decibels (per their report). You can be pretty sure that this will be occurring many, many hours in a day and over many weeks. The construction plan for the project calls for 2 – 3 years. Also note there are parts of their written Construction and Operations Plan of May 2024 that indicates decibel levels as high as 77! They also say “intermittent increases in noise levels are expected during construction…”.
The cables and our beaches will look like this (below). Do you want to be living near this?
Atlantic Shores has stated in their documents that the export cables which will operate at peak loads of 349 mG versus studies which determine that 4 mG is potentially dangerous, especially to children and pregnant women.
Please show up and speak up at the Council Meeting on August 14, 2025 @ 5 pm to tell Atlantic City Council not to allow Atlantic Shores to do this. Atlantic Shores needs to find another, safer, less intrusive route for their cables.