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Anchorage Canal Drainage Area Stormwater Retrofit

Anchorage Canal Drainage Area Stormwater Retrofit

The Anchorage Canal Drainage Area Stormwater Retrofit Project A Collaborative Community Demonstration Project to Clean Up Stormwater Runoff to the ...
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Baygrass Mapping

Baygrass Mapping

GET INVOLVED! To join a survey team, email environment@inlandbays.org or call 302-226-8105 ext. 712. Baygrasses are a vital component of ...
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Loop Canal Project Site

Bethany Loop Canal Project

As communities have developed around the Bays, long stretches of shoreline have been hardened with stone rip-rap or bulkheads. While ...
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Burton Island Study

Burton Island Study

  The Delaware Center for the Inland Bays (CIB) released the results of a study to assess whether material eroding ...
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Clean Water: Delaware's Clear Choice

Clean Water: Delaware’s Clear Choice

What is the Clean Water Campaign? The Clean Water Campaign is a statewide effort to secure funding to improve Delaware’s ...
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Delaware Land Protection Coalition

Delaware Land Protection Coalition

Delaware Land Protection Coalition How You Can Help– You can help us reach our goals by contacting your legislator and ...
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Diamondback Terrapin Survey

Diamondback Terrapin Survey

Each year, just as people are heading to the beaches, so are female diamondback terrapins. Terrapins live in Delaware's Inland ...
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Dirickson Creek

Dirickson Creek

Dirickson Creek flows into Little Assawoman Bay at its southern end, just north of the state line near Fenwick Island. The ...
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Don't Chuck Your Shucks

Don’t Chuck Your Shucks

Since 2014, the "Don’t Chuck Your Shucks" shell recycling program has collected shell from local restaurants for use in projects ...
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Education Programs

Education Programs

"Hands On, Waders On" Environmental Education The Center is redefining the classroom by turning forests, beaches, and salt marshes into ...
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Hazardous Debris Removal

Hazardous Debris Removal

After success in 2013 working with partners to remove derelict pilings and docks from the mouth of the Lewes and ...
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Hopkins Dairy Farm Stream Enhancement

Hopkins Dairy Farm Stream Enhancement

In 2011, we partnered with the Hopkins Dairy Farm (Green Acres Farm, Inc.) in Lewes on a project to improve ...
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Horseshoe Crab Survey

Horseshoe Crab Survey

Each year, horseshoe crabs come ashore by the thousands to spawn on the sandy beaches of our Bays around the ...
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Inland Bays Migratory Fish Passage

Inland Bays Migratory Fish Passage

The spring migration of shad, herring and eel was once a harbinger of the season on rivers and creeks throughout ...
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Inland Bays Osprey Survey

Inland Bays Osprey Survey

Ospreys of the Inland Bays The return of ospreys to the Inland Bays is always a welcome sign of spring, ...
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Inland Bays Shorezone Fish & Blue Crab Survey

Inland Bays Shorezone Fish & Blue Crab Survey

The Inland Bays Shorezone Fish & Blue Crab Survey is a citizen science program at its best. This all-volunteer effort ...
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James Farm Docent Program

James Farm Docent Program

The James Farm Ecological Preserve (Preserve) is a 150-acre property on the Indian River Bay, owned by Sussex County and ...
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James Farm Master Plan Sketch

James Farm Ecological Preserve Master Plan

The James Farm Ecological Preserve is an important resource for the Center and the community at large. But despite the ...
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Living Shoreline stabilizes while allowing natural processes

Living Shorelines

  Living Shorelines in Delaware - A Virtual Tour Brought to you by the Delaware Living Shorelines Committee, this interactive ...
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Love Creek 

Love Creek 

 Just Released State of Love Creek Report (2015) Love Creek is a major tributary that flows into Rehoboth Bay from ...
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Middle Island Rookery Project

Middle Island Rookery Project

The Delaware Center for the Inland Bays’ staff developed a unique artificial nesting structure for Great Blue Heron and Egret ...
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Rehoboth Beach Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade and Ocean Outfall

Rehoboth Beach Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade and Ocean Outfall

The City of Rehoboth Beach maintains a discharge of treated wastewater to the Lewes & Rehoboth Canal, which flows in ...
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Schoolyard Habitats

Schoolyard Habitats

Schoolyard Habitats - Greening Schools in the Inland Bays WatershedIn 2006, the CIB created a partnership with the Indian River ...
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Sea Level Rise

Sea Level Rise

Communities Around the Inland Bays Impacted by Sea Level Rise With the lowest mean elevation in the U.S. at just ...
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Shellfish Aquaculture in the Inland Bays

Shellfish Aquaculture in the Inland Bays

Get the Facts about Shellfish Aquaculture in the Inland Bays! Read the Shellfish Aquaculture Fact Sheet here Read the Aquaculture Planning Team ...
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Stockley Center Stormwater Dry Pond Retrofit Project

Stockley Center Stormwater Dry Pond Retrofit Project

The Stockley Center is home to the headwaters of Cow Bridge Branch, one of the Delaware Inland Bays’ least disturbed ...
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Stockley Center Stream Channel Enhancement

Stockley Center Stream Channel Enhancement

To help protect water quality in Cow Bridge Branch, the Center for the Inland Bays recently completed a project to ...
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Terrapin Gardens

Terrapin Gardens

Diamondback terrapins are the only true estuarine turtle in North America, spending their entire lives in bays, creeks, salt marshes, ...
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Thatcher's Landing Habitat Project

Thatcher’s Landing Habitat Project

In the spring of 2009, the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays took title to 1.64 acres of donated land ...
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Visit the James Farm Preserve!

Visit the James Farm Preserve!

Address: 30048 Cedar Neck Road Ocean View, DE 19970 View printable directions. Phone: (302) 226-8105 Email: jamesfarm@inlandbays.org Hours: Sunrise to Sundown ...
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Your Creek

Your Creek

Connecting Communities to their Creek There is water everywhere here. Of course, the Atlantic Ocean…the big water, but walk west ...
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