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Delaware Watershed

Map of Delaware watershed

General Information:

From Point Mountain in the Catskills Range of Hancock (Schoharie County, New York) to the mouth of the Delaware Bay in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the 300-mile long Delaware River winds its way through four states on the eastern coast of the United States, encompassing 42 counties and 838 municipalities in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The river serves a variety of important residential and industrial functions, including fishing, transportation, power cooling, and recreational purposes, but most important as a source of drinking water. The Delaware River provides drinking water to 17 million people or 10% of the U.S. population.

Partnership:

A Delaware Direct Watershed Partnership will be initiated in 2007 as a part of the upcoming River Conservation Planning process for a Delaware Direct River Conservation Plan.

The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary is a National Estuary Program whose partners and staff seek to lead collaborative and creative efforts to protect and enhance the Delaware Estuary and its tributaries for current and future generations. For more information about this partnership, please visit: www.delawareestuary.org.

For more information or to learn how you can get involved with the partnership please contact:
Tiffany Ledesma Groll
Email: LedesmaGrollTD@cdm.com

Watershed Planning:

  • A River Conservation Plan for the “Delaware Direct” drainage portion of the watershed, which is located entirely within the City of Philadelphia. (Link to Map of this area)
  • Storm Flood Relief planning Interim Report (Nov. 2006)
  • Delaware Source Water Protection Plan to be completed in Winter 2008
  • Central Delaware Riverfront Planning initiatives are underway; for more information please visit: http://www.planphilly.com/
  • Water Resources Plan for the Delaware River Basin, Delaware River Basin Commission, 2004; to view this report please visit: http://www.state.nj.us/drbc/BPSept04/index.htm)
  • See the Delaware Source Water Assessments for a comprehensive list of Delaware River plans and studies
  • Please follow the link below to the USGS website to view real-time water quality data from USGS Gage Stations within this watershed. PWD-USGS Water Resources Monitoring website: http://pa.water.usgs.gov/pwd/.