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
April 20, 2021
The Delaware Center for the Inland Bays invites the public to a virtual Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee meeting from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Friday, April 23. Attendees will learn about the impacts of legacy and emerging contaminants, wastewater planning and continuous water-quality monitoring in the Inland Bays.
STAC meetings are fantastic opportunities for residents to learn about local environmental issues and ask questions about the latest research in the Inland Bays. This committee provides objective, science-driven advice and guidance to the center’s board of directors and other cooperating agencies with interests in the Inland Bays.
Dr. Miling Li, an assistant professor at the University of Delaware’s School of Marine Science and Policy, will talk about her current Delaware-based research on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as “forever chemicals because they do not break down in the environment. These man-made chemic
What do medical labs, fishermen, migratory birds and local rockfish have in common? They absolutely depend on horseshoe crabs to lay billions of springtime eggs along the Delaware bays.
Locally, the crab population around Delawareâs inland bays is remaining steady. But itâs not increasing. Overharvesting already caused a 90-percent decline in population since about 1990. At the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays, keeping an accurate count is the first step to ensuring we can continue using this resource. The CIB recently reported on the past six seasons of data collection, which relies heavily on volunteer, or citizen scientists.
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