TWIN INLETS

TWIN INLETS

The Delaware coast and Maryland coast have a feature not always found on the East Coast.

The twin inlets are the Indian River Bay to the Atlantic Ocean and the inlet at Ocean City

which connects the Sinepuxent Bay to the Atlantic.

These are not identical twins however and do differ.

The Indian River Inlet has no damage from erosion between the bulkheads with an open

channel of water. There is no filling or cutting away on the landward side of the bulkheads.

This inlet is so stabilized that it is spanned by a bridge connecting Ocean City with Reboboth.

Ocean City's inlet suffers from erosion of the landward side of the bulkheads. North of

the inlet sand is being piled up at a great rate and on the south side sand is being carried away

at a great rate and the Atlantic is moving back to the Sinepuxant.

One cannot wonder why the ocean acts one way at Indian River and entirely different at

Ocean City only 20 miles to the south.

Absteract of Baltimore Sun September 1 1953, by Harrison H., January 5, 2018.