Work To Begin On New OC Boat Ramp on 64th Street

OCEAN CITY — The new public boat ramp at 64th Street in Ocean City is expected to break ground this month with a targeted completion date before the next summer season.

During a larger discussion of the proposed $25 million expansion and improvement project for the town’s public works complex last Tuesday, City Engineer Terry McGean told the Mayor and Council the long-awaited public boat ramp along the bay in the adjacent area is expected to break ground next week. The council on July 12 accepted the low bid from Murtech Marine of $714,849 for the construction of the new public access boat ramp at 64th Street. The project was originally budgeted for roughly $1.5 million with the state’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) funding 100 percent of the needed dredge work to facilitate the new ramp up to $500,000 and 50 percent of the site work up to $315,000.

The new boat ramp at 64th Street will replace the town’s only other existing public access boat ramp in the Little Salisbury area. After years of wrestling with an outdated and over-utilized public boat ramp in the Little Salisbury residential area, along with complaints of traffic, parking, noise and litter, the town identified the site at 64th Street as a more appropriate location for the city-owned boat ramp because of it is surrounded by commercial and governmental uses and is located closer to the center of the resort.

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