Some 520-thousand cubic yards of sand from a nearby sandbar is being moved to the beach to help secure Delaware Route 1 that leads to the Indian River Inlet Bridge.
Anthony Pratt, Delaware state shoreline and waterway manager, told the Wilmington News Journal that this will protect the area better than it has been in a long time.
The north side of the inlet will be widened by 50 feet of dry sand with a 25-foot wide dune that will average 16 feet high.
The project is funded by $6.6 million from the federal Sandy Relief Bill.
The state recently completed a new $60-million bridge that crosses inlet which saves drivers 40 round-trip miles from Bethany Beach and Fenwick island north to Dewey Beach and Rehoboth Beach.
