Project would create living shoreline, stormwater retrofit at Sunset Park
Dewey Beach officials and the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays have applied for a grant to create a living shoreline and stormwater retrofit at Sunset Park and the surrounding area. ELLEN DRISCOLL PHOTOS
Ellen Driscoll May 5, 2021
Sunset Park and the adjacent marsh area have experienced severe erosion due to wind and wave activity and inadequate stormwater infrastructure, officials said.
CIB officials say the macadam at the end of Dagsworthy Avenue has disappeared into the bay at a rate of about two feet a year.
The grant would fund the creation of plans to stabilize roughly 800 feet of severely eroded shoreline along Rehoboth Bay from Sunset Park on Dagsworthy Avenue, around Ivy and Northbeach, and including the marsh in front of the Dewey Beach Lions Club on McKinley Avenue. CIB PRESENTATION SCREENSHOT