Dewey Beach outlines pump-station and stormwater fixes to address tidal flooding

Town staff told residents the town has secured or pursued grant funding for several stormwater and drainage projects intended to reduce flooding during heavy rain and high tide events. Staff said a $1,000,000 grant for a Reed Street pump station was re-activated with help from a senator's office and is now with the U.S. Army Corps' design team in Philadelphia; the pump station is intended to reduce flooding on the Reed Street corridor that filled during the recent storm.

Officials also described a roughly $48,000 Dickinson Street storm-drain project with about $45,000 coming from a state transportation fund and said installation would begin Sept. 22 after scheduling shifts for a fire convention. Staff said the town submitted a $2,500,000 grant request through Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester's office for a Van Dyke/Bayside pipe mitigation project; that request was pending committee review and inclusion in the next federal budget cycle, subject to Army Corps review and federal appropriations.