Additional Projects
Overview
Each fall as part of its ongoing maintenance and enhancement program, the city undertakes water main replacement and street paving projects. These projects are part of the city’s annual Capital Improvement Plan and are included in the current fiscal year budget. Other projects on this page include initiatives undertaken by the city that may not necessarily warrant separate project pages or high levels of community engagement.
How You Can Be Involved
Keep up-to-date on these ongoing maintenance projects here.
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Wastewater Treatment Plant Improvements
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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.
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State Road Pump Station
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The pump station on State Road is the main facility providing wastewater flow to the city's treatment plant. In 2021, the old facility w
as 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. -
Rehoboth Avenue Repaving
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The City of Rehoboth Beach is coordinating with DelDOT to repave Rehoboth Avenue from the traffic circle to the bandstand area this fall. This project will include milling, paving, restriping, and some curbing work as well as the creation of additional accessible parking spaces.
Work is expected to be done overnight four days a week. Rehoboth Avenue will remain open to vehicles, but certain lanes may be closed intermittently during different periods.
More information about work hours and days, the project start date, and traffic management will be posted to this page when it's available.
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Annual Water/Street Project – Laurel Street/Scarborough Avenue
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As of the end of November 2023, this project was essentially completed.
This fall, the City of Rehoboth Beach will replace the water main and some associated piping on Laurel Street between Bayard and Scarborough avenues. Work is expected to begin on or around September 25. Laurel Street will be closed to through traffic while work is ongoing, but will be accessible to residents who live on that street. Signage and flaggers will be on site to assist with traffic flow. Parking will be restricted while work is underway (from 8 am-5 pm weekdays) but allowed in the evenings.
Door hanger notices will be posted 48 hours in advance of any scheduled water outages.
After water main work is complete on Laurel, the city will resurface the street of that block of Laurel as well as Scarborough Avenue between Hickman and Christian streets.
The city is coordinating with homeowners on these streets to undertake any needed curb and sidewalk repairs, taking advantage of the city's contracted price, which is expected to be a considerable savings for homeowners. If interested, please reach out to Public Works Director Kevin Williams.
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Water Meter Replacement & FlexNet Meter-Reading System
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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.
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