How We Manage Delaware River Flow

How did the flow from the Delaware River reservoirs become “flexible”?

If you want to really understand the Delaware River, you've got to get your arms around the Flexible Flow Management...
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How goes the flow? This Delaware River committee wants to know

Irrepressible anglers on a rainy April day, fishing on the West Branch of the Delaware River.PHOTO BY MEG MCGUIRE Do...
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Delaware River flow agreement gets closer; four of five parties have signed on

Delaware confirmed that it has signed the new management plan (aka Flexible Flow Management Program) that governs how much water...
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Delaware River Flow Update: Good, Bad and Confusing (updated 10/2/17)

Update 10/2/17: Here's the link from the DRBC web site that has the slides for the presentation of the new...
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The argument about who gets how much Delaware River water continues

  NEW YORK CITY HAS announced that it's going to cut the voluntary extra releases of water to the Delaware it...
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It’s getting close to midnight, May 31st, but no signs of getting closer on FFMP

THERE'S NO MOVEMENT that anyone can detect in the talks aimed at getting the Flexible Flow Management Program re-upped before the...
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Political bickering could harm the fishing industry of the Upper Delaware

  We might notice when the river is really low, or really high, but aside from being careful when we...
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So what happens if the FFMP isn’t renewed?

DELAWARE CURRENTS asked Dr. Peter Kolesar, professor emeritus at Columbia University, to help readers understand what's at stake if the Delaware...
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IMHO: Time to revisit the whole Delaware water-supply system

  IN ONE OF THE sure signs of spring, the states of New Jersey and New York are ready to rumble...
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NJ is ready to rumble for more water from NYC’s Delaware reservoirs

  WATER WARS ARE MORE a matter of course out West, but one is brewing here in the Delaware basin, and...
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