Lewes-Rehoboth Canal Association Takes Next Step To Create Liquid Highway

Study to take 2-4 months to complete

Rehoboth Beach, DE — The Lewes-Rehoboth Canal Improvement Association (LRCIA) has taken the next step in its plans to bring an environmentally friendly “liquid highway” to the resort towns of Lewes and Rehoboth Beach, announcing that a Delaware-based landscape architecture and planning firm and a Baltimore engineering firm will work together on a formal feasibility study of the resort area.

Representatives from Landscape Architectural Service, L.L.C., of Viola, and the firm of Rummel, Klepper & Kahl, will start work on the study, that should take between two and four months to complete, within the next couple of weeks.

Made possible through a $25,000 grant from Delaware’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Project’s Grant Program, the study will focus on possible improvements to the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal, including locating a future docking site on the Rehoboth Beach end of the waterway.

Existing docking areas in Lewes will be examined to determine the best place for a terminal. The area just west of the Rehoboth Beach Museum is currently considered as the most viable option on the southern end of the route.

The primary goal of the feasibility study is the construction of a dock in Rehoboth that would facilitate a solar-powered water taxi between Sussex County’s northern resort communities. While future expansion could include other coastal communities, those options will not be pondered until a later date.

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