Rehoboth Beach putting a bow on new pump station project

The City of Rehoboth Beach has substantially completed a project to replace the facility that pumps all of the city’s wastewater to its treatment plant. The contractors, Michael F. Ronca & Sons and BW Electric, and subcontractors currently are finishing up punch list items on the $2.7 million new State Road pump station.

The former pump station, believed to have been constructed as early as the 1930s and minimally upgraded sometime in the 1980s, had become structurally unsound. Work to replace the station began in spring 2023.

Project Manager Steven Clark, an associate with the wastewater engineering firm GHD, says that the new station has submersible pumps, which improve access safety, and a new odor control system. The new facility is expected to serve the Rehoboth Beach community for decades to come.

On an average off-season day, the pump station transports 500,000 gallons of wastewater; during the summer season, more than 1.5 million gallons of wastewater go through the pump station each day.