Updated 11/15/24

To ensure the quality and appearance of the finished paving on Rehoboth Avenue, DelDOT has requested that paving occur during more favorable temperature periods, which will require daytime work beginning Monday, November 18. DelDOT has provided a revised schedule to finish the area from 2nd Street to the bandstand during the day. Areas west of 2nd Street will be milled at night and paved during the day.

At no time will parking on Rehoboth Avenue be closed completely on one side. For example, if storefront parking is closed in an area, median parking will be available. Work will pause the Wednesday morning before Thanksgiving until after the Hometown Christmas Parade on Monday, December 2.

The City of Rehoboth Beach is undertaking an approximately 10-year, $70 million project to make critical improvements at its wastewater treatment plant. The city currently is in the midst of Phase 3 of the four-phase project. Associated completed projects include construction of the ocean outfall, installation of an ocean outfall force main, and replacement of the effluent pump station.

Phase 3 includes mixer replacement (which has been completed) as well as construction of a new dewatering facility and conversion of existing aerobic digesters to waste sludge holding tanks, which is underway. Phase 3 work is expected to be completed by the end of 2024.

Phase 4 work, expected to get underway in early 2025, will include installation of new plant controls; replacement of chemical feed systems, all sludge and scum pumps, HVAC equipment, flow control equipment, and water pumping systems; renovations to the dewatering building; and miscellaneous architectural repairs.

The pump station on State Road is the main facility providing wastewater flow to the city's treatment plant. In 2021, the old facility was found to be structurally unsound. Work began in spring 2023 to replace the pumps and reconstruct the pump station. The $2.7 million project has been contracted to Michael F. Ronca & Sons Contractor and is expected to be completed in 2024.

As of June 2024, the new pump station is fully operational and utilizing the 16-inch force main. A 12-inch force main, which is used in emergencies, also is ready if needed. Some finishing work will continue to occur at the project site, including changing a 10-inch line to plastic as well as installing permanent fencing and landscaping.

The City of Rehoboth Beach will replace the arms, fixtures, and bulbs (but not the poles themselves) on the lights in the median of Rehoboth Avenue with LED lights, which provide less expensive illumination. This project has been delayed due to issues with the parts, and now is expected to be undertaken following the 2024 summer season. When it gets underway, work will take approximately three weeks to complete. The new LED lights will be adjustable and night sky-like. B.W. Electric of Harrington is the contractor on this project at a cost of $83,450.

This is the first phase of a three-phase project to install LED lights. Sidewalk lights along Rehoboth Avenue will be replaced in 2024, and lights along the boardwalk are scheduled to be replaced in 2025.

Completed - approximately 400 new water meters were installed on the southside of the city in fall 2023.

As part of an ongoing effort to renew water meters, the City of Rehoboth Beach will replace more than 500 water meters on the southside of the city beginning in October; see the map for the impacted area. Harry Caswell, Inc. of Millsboro is the contractor on this project at a cost of $77,017.50.

New meters, those installed over the past five-six years, can be read remotely using a FlexNet system that the city will install in late 2023. Through the FlexNet system, which integrates directly with the city's Munis billing system, customers will be able to log in and monitor water usage.