Our house was built in 1902 on Lewes Beach by my great-grandmother so she could see when her husband, a seafarer, returned home. There were no dunes then. The house has remained in the family since then. We have had boats on the beach over the years, and no dunes and plenty of hurricanes, etc. The house is still there. Back in the day we could have clambakes, bonfires, sail, walk our dogs, swim, fish, play catch, frolic in the dunes, smoke and anything else reasonable people do at the beach.
Now we can’t do anything. Why?
Now they want to block all our access to the beach. Hmm, what is going on here?
The dunes are still growing nicely without the aid of boat-stealing officials wanting to spend a bunch of taxpayer money putting up a fence. Let’s address the public beach - big gap of no dunes with talk of removing the dunes between there and the ferry for additional parking. What? So the taxpaying homeowners lose access to the beach while the transient beach-goers get a paved parking lot and and no pesky dunes to navigate.
The powers that be need to concentrate where the problems exist like the public beach breach and the overflowing canal if their true interest lays in addressing flooding.
Lorie O’Malia
Lewes and Abingdon, Md.
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