Comments on Outfall Pipe Permit – 3 Days Left
Folks, we need you to write comments and send them in on the Army Corps’ permit to build the proposed Ocean Outfall pipe for the Rehoboth Beach Sewage Treatment Plant.
We’ve written a set of talking points for your letter and provided the email address to send them to etc below. Please take 5 minutes to write this letter! Text and a picture of the talking points below. Thanks!
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Rehoboth: Focus on wastewater, stormwater
There is a great Editorial in the Cape Gazette outlining both of the water quality challenges facing Delaware Beaches. Please check it out here.
Letter to the Editor: Rehoboth Should be penalized for discharge
Our own Gregg Rosner wrote a great Letter to the Editor in the Cape Gazette recently. Please check out everything he had to say about the illegal sewage plant discharges into Rehoboth Bay here.
Letter sent to DNREC regarding Rehoboth Beach Wastewater Treatment Plant
Click the link to read the letter The Surfrider Foundation Delaware Chapter sent to DNREC to express our concerns regarding the July 26, 2016 Notice of Violation issued to the City of Rehoboth Beach.
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A Cape Gazette article regarding the proposed Rehoboth Ocean Outfall
This article is trying to make heads or tail of the current wastewater situation in Rehoboth Beach, DE. Click here to read the article which includes concerns from The Surfrider Foundation about recent violations and the storm drain issue the city is required to remediate.
Rehoboth Beach Sewage Plant Receives Violation
You may have read already that the Rehoboth Beach Wastewater Treatment Plant has received a violation form the State of Delaware, (DNREC) for discharging brown solids into the Rehoboth-Lewes Canal. Cape Gazette’s take here. And WGMD’s article here. We are linking the actual violation letter from the State to the plant because it makes for good reading and there are pictures!
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Diamond State Surf Classic Surf Contest
Coming this Fall the Delaware Chapter wants to celebrate the way Surfing bands us as one with the ocean and each other by inaugurating the first annual Diamond State Surf Classic. The Classic will be a relatively friendly competitive Surf Contest centered around a festival like atmosphere. Together, lets be on the ground floor of long standing tradition where we invite families, friends, locals and the curious to the beach to enjoy local vendor offerings and watch a fantastic display of local Surfing.
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Call or Email to Limit Plastic Bag Use in DE
A bill in the DE legislature is closer than ever to passing that would put a fee on single-use bags given away at checkout counters in large retail stores. Help us make it law!
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SURFRIDER APPLAUDS OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FOR PROTECTING THE ATLANTIC FROM OFFSHORE DRILLING PLANS
San Clemente, CA, March 15, 2016
In a historic move today, President Obama has reversed the plan he set forth last year to open the Atlantic to offshore drilling.
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