Emergency dredging scheduled for Ocean City inlet.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are gearing up to commence dredging operations in Ocean City starting Monday, April 28th.
The meeting revealed that the critical repair work on the North Bulkhead, which engineers have noted is failing, will commence on May 6.
The Army Corps of Engineers is hard at work replenishing the beaches near the Roosevelt Inlet in Lewes.
The Corps is adding around one hundred thousand cubic yards of sand to the beach.
Beach replenishment in Fenwick is now scheduled for May 15 and in Dewey, May 18. Both are expected to be completed by June 9.
The boardwalk in Ocean City has been getting reboarded since last winter. It is finally in the last stages and the contractors are ahead of schedule, the city hopes to be done with the project by March 31st of this year.
A cost sharing agreement has been signed to investigate flood risk in coastal areas of Delaware and to develop mitigation solutions.