Progress is being made at Atlantic Park in Virginia Beach with crews bottoming out the surf lagoon last week. Now crews are getting ready to begin the process of constructing the machine that will make waves.
Watch: Atlantic Park hits construction milestone as they ‘bottom out’ wave pool
Surf’s up! Atlantic Park hits construction milestone as they ‘bottom out’ wave pool
Inside the construction site that expands from 17th to 20th Street, crews are moving dirt quickly to open sections of Atlantic Park by this Spring.
A milestone was met last week, which was laying the initial foundation of the more than 2.5 acre surf lagoon, so crews will no longer have to fight groundwater.
“As soon as we dig a hole to allow for the surf park to go into the ground then inadvertently we’re having groundwater come up,” Alec Yuzhbabenko, who is part of the project design, said.
John Hood Being five feet below sea level is no easy task and during the dig, there was an environmental issue with getting rid of contaminants in the groundwater.