Dredging kicks off on Lewes-Rehoboth Canal

For the first time in long time, the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal is getting some much needed help as a three month dredging project started yesterday.

“We’ve been dredging every three years all on our own and there’s never really been major dredging of the full canal,” the general manager of the Lewes Yacht Club, Greg Raschdorf, said to WBOC.

“It costs quite a bit of money and then you have to find a place to put the spoils.”

According to the city, Dredgit – contracted by the Army Corp of Engineers – will be performing the dredging alongside maintenance.

The dredging operations will run between the Roosevelt Inlet and the Freemans Highway Bridge.

The city said that work will take place seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. 

Dredging work is expected to be complete by the end of December.