Drivers traveling the one-and-a-half-mile stretch of highway between Rehoboth Beach and Dewey Beach will have more roadwork to contend with later this year.
DelDOT is currently repaving that potion of road known as the Forgotten Mile, and now is setting its sights on bridge repairs there.
DelDOT community relations director C.R. McLeod says work on the bridge over the canal along the Forgotten Mile will begin this fall.
“We’re actually going to be rehabilitating that bridge itself with a standalone project. And that will be beginning just after the Sea Witch Festival this fall and will take place over the winter and early spring of 2020,” said McLeod.
McLeod notes the bridge is structurally sound.
“But as with all infrastructure, it does need maintenance and repair. So that’s what we’re going to do; we’re going to go out and make sure all of the joints and road surface and the structure are in good shape and we can get many more good years out of that crossing there,” McLeod said.
The $8 million facelift will include replacing the concrete decking, joints and bearings and adding lighting.
Paving along the Forgotten Mile should conclude by mid-May. Crews will return in September, after the summer season, to wrap up that project before working on the bridge.
