The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control today issued an emergency closure of commercial and recreational shellfish harvest of oysters, clams and mussels in the Rehoboth Bay after a spill from a residential sewer line in the Long Neck area of Sussex County discharged thousands of gallons of untreated wastewater into a waterway […]
Continue ReadingDOVER, DE – The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control was notified Wednesday, December 18, 2019 of equipment malfunctions at the Lewes wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) that the facility operator, Tidewater Inc., was working to correct. Due to the nature of the affected equipment, the malfunction could not be expeditiously resolved, which required the […]
Continue ReadingBALTIMORE, MD – The Maryland Department of the Environment is reclassifying waterways in Talbot County for shellfish harvesting. About 294 acres of harvesting waters in Broad Creek and about 88 acres in San Domingo Creek will be reclassified from approved for shellfish harvesting to conditionally approved for direct harvesting. In areas that are conditionally approved, […]
Continue ReadingThe Maryland Department of the Environment has reclassified a portion of Greenwood Creek in Queen Anne’s County for shellfish harvesting. About 130 acres of the creek have been reclassified from approved for shellfish harvesting” to “conditionally approved.” In areas that are conditionally approved, oysters and clams can be harvested at any time with the exception […]
Continue ReadingThe Maryland Department of the Environment is temporarily reclassifying waters in the Kent Narrows in Queen Anne’s County from closed to open to allow oysters and clams to be harvested. The change became effective Monday, February 12, 2018. The opening will remain in effect until the end of the 2018 oyster season (March 31 or […]
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