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LEWES, DE - The Delaware River & Bay Authority (DRBA) has confirmed an unexploded WWII ordnance was the cause of Monday night’s delays on the Cape May-Lewes Ferry.

According to the DRBA, the ordnance was discovered in the Cape May canal area at low tide on April 28, prompting the United States Coast Guard to shut down the waterway until daylight. 

The ferry vessel MV Delaware was inbound with 70 passengers at the time of the discovery, officials say, and had to return to the Lewes terminal for the night.

DRBA says a bomb squad was dispatched from Atlantic City to deactivate the ordnance and operations at the Cape May-Lewes Ferry resumed at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday.

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