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OCTOBER 11, 2024
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Volume 21, Issue 41
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Fenwick dredge project finally set to start By Kerin Magill Staff Reporter A Fenwick Island dredging project that has been in the works for close to a decade is set to begin next week. Two boating channels in the Little Assawoman Bay have become hazardous for boaters to navigate in recent years due to sedimentation
buildup. This week, town officials announced through a statement on the town website that “through the help of numerous legislators and community partners, the Town is pleased to announce that dredging will formally begin by Monday, Oct.14.” Meetings last week addressed lastminute work to settle issues involving
logistics of placing the dredged material on land off Route 54 that is being developed by Carl M. Freeman Companies. The negotiations with Freeman resulted in the necessity for the town council to approve an additional $125,000 to the cost of the $1.8 million project, which the council did, unanimously, on Friday, Oct. 4. The
extra funding will pay for fencing and cloth barriers around the area where the dredge material will be placed. Making the dewatering for the dredge material site 3 feet lower also added to the cost of the project. Funding was obtained from state
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Ocean View gets clean audit, talks smoking ban By Susan Canfora Staff Reporter Ocean View Mayor John Reddington and the town council said this week that they were pleased to learn that the result of the recent town audit was “unmodified” — the highest level a certified public accounting firm can bestow on a municipality. That good news was delivered at the Tuesday, Oct. 8, meeting during a presentation by a representative of PKS & Company P. A., an accounting firm with offices in Lewes, as well as Ocean City and Salisbury, Md. The PKS representative said every town used to say they had unmodified audits, “but now we are seeing a lot of towns in Delaware and Maryland have problems with their finances and not being able to find qualified personnel, so I think it is a true testament to what you are doing,” she told the council. “This is a really positive report for the Town.” She thanked Town Manager Carol Houck and Finance Director Dawn See AUDIT page A4
Special to the Coastal Point • Maria Vershel
One of our amazing readers sent in this shot of a humpback whale emerging from the water off the coast of South Bethany last week. So, we figured we’d share it with the rest of you.
CRI brings legal action over offshore wind farms By Mike Smith Staff Reporter Caesar Rodney Institute’s Center for Energy & Environment, along with two regional watermen concerned about offshore wind farms’ potential impacts on the local fisheries, have filed a lawsuit
against DNREC, citing two technical points they say are related to protecting the inland bays and potentially overriding county zoning ordinances. The Brady Legal Group and founding partner Jane Brady have bought the legal action against the state agency for allegedly not following its own regula-
tions in permitting offshore wind. Brady — who was Delaware’s attorney general from 1995 to 2005, elected as a Republican — filed the complaint, which lists the Caesar Rodney Institute, Paul “Wes” Townsend and George Merrick as the complainants. The suit is challenging DNREC’s authority to
grant permits to U.S. Wind for construction at 3R’s beach and for the use of wetlands and subaqueous lands by running cable beneath the Delaware Inland Bays to a power substation. “They are not neutral parties in this See CRI page A6