as the Army Corps of Engineers
completed the beach replenishment
project last week.
and I think town staff will agree with
me, it went off without a hitch. We
still received a lot of inquiries and
complaints, but once again the proj-
ect was not set by the town," Town
Manager Merritt Burke said during
last Friday's Town Council meeting.
"I want to give a lot of credit to Capt.
[Tim] Ferry and the lifeguards for
consistent posting of information,
specifically photos on Twitter and
Facebook. I would like to believe we
set the standard for the rest of the
beach communities moving forward
using social media."
tractor] Great Lakes keeping us up
to date on the movement of their
areas and keeping as much beach
open as possible down there," Ferry
said. "I don't think at any point in
time there was one beach crossover
process. There was access 100
percent of the time. You might have
had to walk a little bit north or south
to get to a particular beach but
things worked very well with that."
been completed in Fenwick on Aug.
21. There were three subline pipes
dropped between Atlantic and
Houston streets and the contractor,
Great Lakes Dredge and Dock,
worked in four phases pumping
sand south of each pipe first as far
as the Maryland State Line and then
north to meet where they left off in
the previous phase until they had
reached the end of Fenwick on the
North end.
pumped onto the beach, while
Dewey and Rehoboth will get a
combined 455,000 cubic yards.
Overall, from New York to Virginia,
an estimated 26 million cubic yards
of sand will be pumped onto the
beaches at an estimated cost of
$600 million.
to finish and the wide cost range for
the project is estimated at anywhere
from $10 million to $25 million.