What are wetlands?

Wetlands are low-lying areas where water tends to collect and saturate the ground, either year-round or for long periods.  Wetlands are most easily identified by vegetation composition, plants and animals that thrive in wet conditions.  There are wetlands in every community and they take many forms:  banks, beaches, bogs, dunes, marshes, ponds, rivers, salt marshes, streams, tidal

pools and wet meadows.  The Town of Rehoboth mainly consists of inland wetland resource areas.  However, we do have tidal marshes in the area of Route 6.