Correcting the shoreline in Delaware

your right!

Yep, I know exactly what you are talking about. For a while, I was having fun catching nice little waves along all of the jetties up around the North Shores and Towers area. It was only me and maybe one other guy out catching wave after wave. They were not the biggest, but they were fun.

Now gone, only the memories I have of these "secret" breaks.

Hopefully the engineers will stop messing with this stuff.

 

Rehoboth still breaks unbelievably good for the right swell, albeit steep/hollow/sucking.

 

removing the layer of gravel will have NO effect on the surf break. IMO, the surf breaks around rehoboth were messed up by two factors

1) the 2005 beachfill project placed coarser grained sand than the 1998 beachfill project project which was finer grained sand and actually improved the surf breaks.

2) the 2005 project was so wide it almost entirely covers the rock jetties and outfall pipes which formed nice bars off the ends as sand was shunted around. Now the ends of those jetties are like 30 feet off the beach and have almost no effect.

The relatively small amount of gravel to be scooped will not affect the breaks

 

Way to misquote me, I said "rehoboth still breaks unbelievably good". Didn't compare it to anything. The "unbelievably" coming from the standard view that it "never" breaks.

 

rehoboth surf got destroyed by the replenishment... That is where i started surfing way back in the day, and there were fun waves. Now, I dont even look there.

Its hard to know what the solution for better surf is without knowing more info... One guess it that the heavier rocks are preventing sand from being deposited into bars offshore. And this is maintaining the quick transition from deep water to shoreline, and crappy breakers.

 

They're spending 1.1 million on this project in March. Which in my opinion is stupid due to the fact that Nor'Easters occur a lot during this month. Why not mother nature do it for free. Or hire some poor surfers such as myself and pay me 1.1 million to remove the stones. I got my own equipment wetsuit, shovel, wheelbarrel.

 

why dont they

just remove all of the rocks and then let the storms pu the sand back in instead of having ti spend all of that money.

 

The $1.1 million is to pump more sand on the beach in Dewey and Bethany, not remove the stones.

 

My mistake I read it a week ago in the paper but I see there's a link. How much will it cost?

 

its likely when you remove the stones, you are also going to create an environment that will allow for more erosion. But, it seems as if its worth removing the stones... and definitely for allow sand bars to return to rehoboth.

 

i think the only thing that will allow real sand bars to return to Dewey and Rehoboth is to pump finer grained sand onto the beach, like OCMD. The only source of medium-fine grained sand that i am aware of near enough to Rehoboth to be useful is Hens and Chicken shoals, which was used in 1998 in Rehoboth, produced decent surf, but the Corps is no longer permitted to dredge sand from there.

 

Now the only decent breaks are Tower Road and Indian River Inlet which i hate having to go into the park in order to surf

 

theyve been working this week pulling gravel

 

Check this picture of Sandy Hook NJ late 70's early 80's before it was destroyed by beach replenishment. Google earth it now and overlay the two, it is the best example I have ever seen against the practice of beach replenishment at least from a surfers point of view. I learned to surf at the small jetty 4th from the bottom and spent everyday of surf for over 10 years exploring each of them. Just imagine what is under that sand???? Sorry I know this thread is about Rehoboth.

 

Look at the cove in the old picture and look at it now. They still call it the cove but it is nothing like it was, and you could ride it from that point to to beach on the right day although most kicked out long before the end since it got kinda deep way on the inside. That was the only true reef I had ever surfed, giant muscle covered boulders and boils everywhere it was great! To put the scale into perspective The small jetty 4th from the bottom was about 4 times as long as the OCI jetty.