Water Quality and Quantity
Research reveals value of volunteer-led water quality monitoring
Community volunteers across the Delaware River Basin are collecting data that support local conservation goals, such as reducing the harmful...
DRBC calls a special hearing for Nov. 19 on drought conditions
The Delaware River Basin Commission announced on Wednesday that it would hold a special hearing via Zoom at 1:30 p.m....
Mussels: A powerful solution to pollution in the Delaware?
When the Fairmount Water Works was built in the early 19th century to provide clean drinking water to Philadelphia, it...
New York City to stop most land purchases in Catskill watershed
Residents and local officials in the Catskills are celebrating an agreement that puts an end to part of a decades-long...
Delaware Riverkeeper sues EPA over dissolved oxygen standards
An environmental group has taken the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to federal court, accusing it of foot-dragging in finalizing regulations...
Agencies sign on to a re-evaluation of a Lehigh River dam
Representatives from three government agencies last month agreed to share the costs of a study to consider the current and...
DRBC to explore water-storage possibilities to alleviate drought
The scientists, engineers and planners at the Delaware River Basin Commission work on all sorts of projects, almost invisibly, and...
Response to 2023 Trinseo spill into the Delaware was slow and marked by botched communications, records show
The response to a spill of 8,100 gallons of a latex product from a Bristol, Pa., facility into a creek...
Where does your drinking water come from Gloucester, Burlington and Camden Counties?
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of articles to educate readers in southwestern New Jersey about the...
Where does your drinking water come from Camden, N.J.?
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles to educate readers in southwestern New Jersey about the...
Where does your drinking water come from Evesham, N.J.?
Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of articles to educate readers in southwestern New Jersey about the...
University of Delaware gets EPA grant to study effects of road salt on freshwater wetlands
Road salt, while good when roads are icy, can be bad for water systems and the critters that inhabit them....
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