Rehoboth Beach, DE: The Delaware Center for the Inland Bays (CIB) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Marianne Walch to the position of Science and Restoration Coordinator. Dr. Walch brings nearly 30 years of environmental and ecology research experience in academic, federal and state government positions to the CIB. For twelve years she […]
Letter to the Editor: On January 5th, DNREC Secretary David Small, decided to allow the City of Rehoboth Beach to move forward with plans to remove the City’s wastewater treatment plant discharge from Rehoboth Bay. For decades, the wastewater has degraded this ecologically sensitive estuary. Nutrients in the wastewater have contributed to murky waters, […]
At the mouth of Love Creek where it flows into Rehoboth Bay, the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays is working to improve wildlife habitat and enhance water quality by re-foresting 40 acres of farm field on the Perry Tract at the Angola Neck Preserve. This week, the CIB began the first phase of the […]
We are all fortunate to have so much public land around the Inland Bays. In fact, there are seven areas managed by DNREC’s Division of Parks within the Bays’ watershed including: Fenwick Island, Holts Landing, Fresh Pond, Delaware Seashore, and Cape Henlopen State Parks; and the Thompson Island and Angola Neck Preserves. The benefits to […]
The spring migration of shad, herring and eel was once a harbinger of the season on rivers and creeks throughout the Inland Bays, but spawning runs have drastically declined. The construction of dams on our waterways to supply power to mills prevented these species from reaching their spawning grounds upstream of the dams. The mills […]
The spring migration of shad, herring and eel was once a harbinger of the season on rivers and creeks of the Inland Bays, but spawning runs have drastically declined. The construction of dams on our waterways to supply power to mills prevented these species from reaching their spawning grounds upstream of the dams. The mills […]
Indian River Inlet, DE: In recognition of Sea Level Rise Awareness Week in Delaware, the Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) of the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays (CIB) will host Dr. Jonathan D. Essoka, of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at its September meeting on Thursday, September 18 at 5 p.m. The meeting will […]
MILFORD, Del. (September 10, 2014)— Delaware Nature Society has partnered with 19 other organizations on a campaign called S.O.S Delaware to raise public awareness about sea level rise and its impact on Delaware. The state’s second annual Sea Level Rise Awareness Week will run from September 13 – 20, 2014. A press conference announcing the effort […]
“Improving water quality in the Inland Bays begins upstream,” according to Eric Buehl, Land Conservation and Restoration Coordinator for the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays. There are about fourteen major tributaries that carry fresh water into the three bays, but those waterways are fed by hundreds of small streams, creeks, and ditches that carry […]
The Delaware the Center for the Inland Bays will celebrate its 20th Anniversary with a Gala on the Bay on Thursday, August 14th from 5:30 to 9:30pm.at the Rehoboth Beach Country Club overlooking Rehoboth Bay. The evening will include a special raw bar and cocktail reception, dinner, “Friends of the Bays” Award presentation, live music, […]
