Delaware surfers and the Army Corps of Engineers are clashing over the impact of beach replenishment on the waves.
It involves a narrow strip of Indian River Inlet whose floor sloped gradually with sandbars that could produce waves.
But these days Mason Contruction Company is set to pump 400-thousand cubic yards of sand from the Inlet to widen the beach.
Jamie Young, manager of East of Maui in Dewey Beach, told the Wilmington News Journal that the shallower beaches give the surfer more time to catch the wave and ride it in.
But over the years the sand pumped onto the beach for replenishment has widened the beach burying many of the sandbars.
Joe Belstri, a former member of the Surfrider Foundation in Delaware, told the paper that beach replenishment has also ruined Bethany Beach as well so that surfers are not going to Ocean City and Assateague.
