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Delaware Coastal Engineering Scenes

Indian River Inlet, Delaware, looking to the north showing the portable sand bypass system excavating a hole in the south fillet at the inlet. The system (operated by the Dept. Natural Resources and Environmental Control) consists of a crane that holds an eductor pump that removes sand from the beach face, two pumps to move the sand over the bridge, and a discharge line on the north side that discharges the sand onto the beach (where it looks wet in the photo).

Indian River Bay and Rehoboth Bay are to the left and US Rt. 1 is the highway. The parking area in the foreground is part of the Delaware State Sea Shore Park.

Photograph taken by the Corps of Engineers, 1996.

Beach Fill on the Delaware Coast, looking north. The darker sand to the south is the new sand (obtained from offshore) being pumped onto the beach using the pipe down the middle of the beach. Photo courtesy of Tony Pratt, Del. Dept. Of Natural Resources and Environmental Control.

Bethany Beach after the Ash Wednesday storm of 1962.

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