DNREC Issues an Emergency Shellfish Closure at Lewes WWTP Area
by TBC Press on 12/31/19As a result of the Lewes WWTP’s effluent bypass situation, DNREC Secretary Shawn M. Garvin has issued an emergency shellfish closure order for harvest areas downstream of the plant. Discharge from the WWTP flows into the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal, which predominantly flows to the Delaware Bay. The shellfish harvest closure affects the lower Delaware Bay, from the Mispillion River Inlet south to The Point at Cape Henlopen State Park, and Delaware jurisdictional waters east to... READ MORE
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