Subaqueous Lands Permit and Wetlands Application

Robert A. Portz (2-35-23.00-64.00)-To construct a 3 by 120 foot long wetland walkway, a 4 by 16 foot long fixed pier, a 4 by 20 foot long gangway, and a 6 by 30 foot long floating dock at 15869 Willow Creek Road, Lewes, Sussex County, DE

Subaqueous Lands Permit Applications

Priscilla Palmiter and Teresa Annis (3-34-22.00-11.01)-To repair by replace a 5 by 25 foot long dock, to repair by replace 128 linear feet of bulkhead including return walls, to construct a boatlift with 4 associated pilings, a 2 by 20 foot long catwalk within the boatlift and to install a PWC Lift with one associated piling at 2 Marshall Road, Rehoboth Beach, Sussex County, DE

Delaware Department of Transportation (adjacent to 1301800008)-To install 57 linear feet of steel sheetpile wingwalls in front of existing timber wingwalls, and to place up to 983 cubic yards of rip-rap for scour protection and stabilization in Drawyers Creek, adjacent to Shallcross Lake Road, Middletown, New Castle County, DE

Stuart Stein (1-34-20.11-18.01)-To construct a 5 by 25 foot long dock and a boat lift with 4 associated pilings on Cedar Pond at 35271 Hassel Avenue, Bay View Park, South Bethany, Sussex County, DE

Winterberry Homes, LLC. (1-34-3.00-541.00)-To install a set of access stairs over rip-rap with a 4 by 4 foot long section channelward of the mean high water on the Indian River at 34390 Indian River Drive, Bay Colony, Dagsboro, Sussex County, DE

DNREC, Division of Fish & Wildlife (134-20.00-10.00)-To construct an armored living shoreline by installing ≈ 380 linear feet of marsh rock toe sill following the natural contour of the shoreline with four (4) 5 foot wide gaps lined with rock and shellbags and backfilled with 522 cubic yards of sand fill and to plant Spartina plugs / reuse salvaged plant material across 7,737 square feet located approximately 30 feet channelward of mean low water in Miller Creek and east of the terminus of Sassafras Landing Road, Assawoman Wildlife Area, Frankford, Sussex County, DE

Dirickson Landing POA (1-34-21.00-0021.00)-To install 45 linear feet of riprap consisting of 15 cubic yards for shoreline stabilization and to extend an existing boat ramp return wall 6 linear feet in Dirickson Creek at Dirickson Landing, on the Northeast side of Old Mill Bridge, Frankford, Sussex County, DE

United States Air Force (2-05-08700-01-0600-00001)-To install 30 linear feet of rip rap consisting of 17 cubic yards for shoreline stabilization, three (3) check dams consisting of 45 cubic yards of rip rap, to install 50 linear feet of Envirolock bags consisting of 6 cubic yards of quarry stone, to repair by replace a 4 by 2 foot long pier, to temporarily impact 200 square feet by installing a stone ford crossing consisting of 7.5 cubic yards of DE # 3 stone and to authorize a steel gate with several 2 inch diameter bars by 25 linear feet in Pipe Elm Branch, WSW of Postles Corner Road, Dover Air Force Base, Dover, Kent County, DE

Subaqueous Lands Lease Application

Pine Acres, Inc. (2-34-24.00-38.00)-To maintain a 4 foot by 54 foot long dock, (29) 2 by 18 foot long finger piers, (6) 2 by 19 foot long finger piers, (1) 3 by 29 foot long pier, and 78 free-standing mooring pilings in Guinea Creek at 25491 Dogwood Lane, Leisure Point Long Neck, Millsboro, Sussex County, DE

Subaqueous Wetlands Applications

Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Coastal Programs (2-00-10600-01-0101-00001, 2-00-10600-2401-00001)-To construct 5 separate 1 square meter wooden frames with gas chambers for measuring marsh greenhouse gas efflux in addition to wooden walking planks representing 14 square meters of total wetland impacts at St. Jones Reserve, 818 Kitts Hummock Road, Dover, Kent County, DE

Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Coastal Programs (2-00-10600-01-0101-00001, 2-00-10600-2401-00001)-To install 15 separate 4 inch diameter water level loggers and associated 2 by 2 foot long signs with posts at St. Jones Reserve, 818 Kitts Hummock Road, Dover, Kent County, DE

Subaqueous Lands Lease Renewal Applications

The Van Wagoner Family LLC III (1-34-20.07-111.00)-To maintain a 4 by 20 foot long dock in Jefferson Creek at 419 Bristol Road, York Beach, Bethany Beach, Sussex County, DE

John Wylie (1-34-23.16-0347.00)-To maintain a 3 by 20 foot long pier, a 8 by 24 foot long dock connecting to a 3 by 80 foot long wetland walkway in the Little Assawoman Bay at 806 South Schulz Road, Fenwick Island, Sussex County, DE

Subaqueous Lands Lease Supplemental Applications

Stephen and Johanna Owsiany (2-34-34.12-50.00)-To install a double PWC lift with a 15.5 inch by 12 foot long aluminum catwalk and four associated pilings connecting to a previously authorized structure in the Indian River at 32472 River Road, Millsboro, Sussex County, DE

David and Diane Kier (2-33-7.00-113.00)-To repair by replace an existing 3 by 30 foot long section of walkway flaring out to a 4 by 13 foot long section of pier and to install a boatlift with four associated pilings at 128 Riverview Drive, Point Farm, Dagsboro, Sussex County, DE

Swann Cove West, LLC (5-33-12.00-1077.00)-To install a boatlift with four associated pilings connecting to a previously authorized structure in Dirickson Creek at Lot #280, Swann Cove West, Phase 8, Selbyville, Sussex County, DE

These Documents/Applications above are available for review by contacting:

Gayle Calder
Wetlands and Subaqueous Lands Section
89 Kings Highway
Dover, DE 19901
(302) 739-9943 FAX (302) 739-6304

If you have any comments, please return this memo to this office by March 12, 2019.

A public hearing on the above applications will NOT be held unless the Secretary of DNREC determines that a public hearing is in the public interest or if a written meritorious objection to the application is received within 20 days from this notice. A public hearing request shall be deemed meritorious if it exhibits familiarity with the application and provides a reasoned statement of the action’s probable impact.