Baltimore Sun Friday April
16, 1971 Salisbury Bureau by Mary Cordry
Betheny Beach, Delaware,
April 15, 1971
Wind, Waves, Play Havoc with
Bethany Beach Sand
A nor'east wind, ocean waves, last
week washed away so much of the beach at this
Delaware resort tat the jetties
designed to hold the sand in place now stand exposed five
feet high.
Bethany Beach is a quiet residential
ocean resort in Delaware just north of Ocean City.
For the past two years the ocean has
been washing away sand along the boardwalk and
encroaching into the wide dunes ,
says the town manager, Allan Humphrey.
The wooden steps from the boardwalk to
the beach were three feet above the sand and the
surf had washed under the boardwalk in
many places. Three feet of sand has been lost
from the beach.
Last Tuesday the wind velocity
reached 67 mph all day long and the force of the waves
undermined the jetties . Foam from
the waves washed over the dunes and ran down city
streets.
Year around residents says the beach
will build itself back up as the wind changes but
rebuilding dunes is the big problem.
Overlooking the surf on the boardwalk
is the Holiday House restaurant which stands on a
peninsula of high ground protected by
a bulkhead that was built after the 1962 storm that
almost washed the east coast away.
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