DRBC -- Publications

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Water Resources Plan for the Delaware River Basin (Basin Plan)
Basin Plan (2004)
Basin Plan Implementation Progress Reports - Compiled for the Commissioners on an Annual Basis
FY 2005	FY 2006	FY 2007	FY 2008	FY 2009
DRBC Annual Reports
2008 Report ( 3.5 MB)
2006-2007 Report (2.3 MB)
2004-2005 Report
2002-2003 Report
2001 Report
2000 Report
1999 Report
1998 Report (zipped Adobe Acrobat file - 43,360 KB; unzipped 78,849 KB)
1997 Report
Reports (1963 -1996) - Paper copies only

DRBC Water Quality Assessment Reports/305(b) Reports

Methodology for the 2010 Delaware River and Bay Integrated List Water Quality Assessment Report - Includes Link to DRBC's Response to Comments on the Draft Methodology

2008 Delaware River and Bay Integrated List Water Quality Assessment Report (2008)

2006 Delaware River and Bay Integrated List Water Quality Assessment Report (2006)

2004 Delaware River and Bay Integrated List Water Quality Assessment Report (2004)

2002 Water Quality Assessment Report

2000 Water Quality Assessment Report: Cover (12 KB); Table of Contents(11 KB); Text (56 KB); Maps (1,836 KB)

1996-1997 Water Quality Assessment Report (64 KB); Water Use Support Maps (2,183 KB) - Corrected 9/17/98

1996 Water Quality Assessment Report

DRBC Delaware Estuary Reports

White Paper on the Status of Needs of Science in the Delaware Estuary (Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, 2006)
This link will take you to the Partnership's web site.

Monitoring Report Covering Developments and Data Collected or Reported During 1999-2003 (2004)

Bioaccumulation of PCBs in the Delaware River Estuary (2004)

Sedimentological and Geophysical Survey of the Upper Delaware Estuary (2003)

Monitoring Report Covering Developments and Data Collected or Reported in 1998 (2000)

Executive Summary to the Public Hearing Response Document on the Proposed Determination Regarding the Assimilative Capacity of the Tidal Delaware River for Volatile Organics and Toxicity (1999/2000)

Monitoring Report Covering Developments and Data Collected or Reported in 1997 (1998) -- Pages 1 to 26 (1,710 KB) Pages 27 to 63, appendices (190 KB)

Wasteload Allocations for Volatile Organics and Toxicity: Phase I TMDLs for Toxic Pollutants in the Delaware River Estuary (1998) (1,224 KB); Appendix (1998) (4,204 KB)

Impact of Aquatic Vegetation on Water Quality of the Delaware River Estuary Submitted to DRBC by The Academy of Natural Sciences (1998) (4,616 KB)

Study of the Loadings of Polychlorinated Biphenyls from Tributaries and Point Sources Discharging to the Tidal Delaware River (1998) (4,191 KB)

Public Hearing Response Document, Regulations for Controlling Toxic Pollutants in the Delaware River Estuary (1996)

Implementation Policies and Procedures: Phase I TMDLs for Toxic Pollutants in the Delaware River Estuary (1995) Text (2,532 KB); Appendices (6,593 KB)

Development of a Tidal Version of the Cormix Models for Application to Discharges in the Delaware Estuary (1995)

Calibration and Validation of the DYNHYD5 Hydrodynamic Model for the Delaware River Estuary (1995)

Water Quality Criteria for Toxic Pollutants for the Delaware River Estuary (1995)

Sediment Contaminants of the Delaware River Estuary (1993)

Ambient Toxicity Study of the Delaware River Estuary Phase 1 (1991)

DRBC Non-Tidal Delaware River/Tributary Reports

Interim Methodology for Bioassessment of the Delaware River for the DRBC 2010 Integrated Assessment (July 2009)

Pilot Study: Implementation of a Periphyton Monitoring Network for the Non-Tidal Delaware River (2007) (1.7 MB)

Delaware River Biomonitoring Program 2006-2007 Quality Assurance Project Plan (2007) (1.5 MB)

Paradise Creek Watershed Restoration Plan: Phase 1 Technical Report (2005)

Lower Delaware Monitoring Program (Lower Delaware River Eligibility Determination for DRBC Declaration of Special Protection Waters and 2000-2003 Results/Water Quality Management Recommendations) (2004)

Lower Delaware Water Quality Monitoring Program Quality Assurance Project Plan (2003)

Lower Delaware Monitoring Program (1999 Survey of the Lower Non-Tidal Delaware River and Pilot Study for a Long-Term Water Quality Monitoring Network) (2001)

Delaware River Biomonitoring Program Quality Assurance Project Plan (2003) (1.5 MB)

2001 Lehigh River Water Quality Monitoring Report (2002) (852 KB) The supporting documents are available.

"High Flow Management Objectives for N.J. Non-Coastal Waters" Report (August 2000) (1.2 MB)

Delaware River Rooted Aquatic-Plant Biomass Study from Port Jervis, N.Y. (Route 84 Bridge) to Milford, Pa. (Route 206 Bridge) (August 1999) (4 MB) Click here to view the Study's Abstract.

USGS Ground Water Study - Open File Report 98-571 and 1996 ground and surface water withdrawal data for the Ground Water Protected Area of Southeastern Pennsylvania

Redesign of the DRBC/NPS Scenic Rivers Monitoring Program, Report No. 18 of the Cooperative Program (1995)

Public Hearing Response Document, Special Protection Waters Non-Point Source Regulations (1994)

Determination of Travel Time in the Delaware River, Hancock N.Y., to the Delaware Water Gap, by Use of a Conservative Dye Tracer (Published jointly with U.S.G.S.) (1994)

Longitudinal Dispersion of a Conservative Solute in the Delaware River, Hancock, N.Y., to the Delaware Water Gap (1994)

Findings of the 1993 Scenic Rivers Water Quality Monitoring Program and Stream Flow Rating Curves for Seventeen Tributaries (1994)

Proceedings of the Upper Delaware Water Quality and Biological Monitoring Conference (1994)

Other DRBC Publications and Reports

DRBC Water Resources Program FY 2010-2015 (2010) (760 KB)

State of the Delaware River Basin Report (2008)

Enhancing Multi-Jurisdictional Use and Management of Water Resources for the Delaware River Basin -- This 2008 report was written by the Philadelphia District of the Army Corps of Engineers.

Nutrient Criteria Strategy for the Tidal and Non-Tidal Delaware River (2008) (285 KB)

Emerging Contaminants of Concern in the Delaware River Basin: Vulnerability Assessment Preliminary Report (2007) (322 KB)

Delaware Toxics Reduction Program (DelTRiP) January 2007 Annual Report

Delaware Toxics Reduction Program (DelTRiP) January 2006 Annual Report

Strategy for Resolution of Interstate Flow Management Issues in the Delaware River Basin -- This August 2004 report was prepared for the DRBC by HydroLogics, Inc.

Delaware River Creel Survey 2002 -- This May 2003 report, prepared by Versar, Inc., presents results of the 2002 creel survey under a contract from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, on behalf of the Delaware River Basin Fish and Wildlife Management Cooperative.

A River Bounces Back (2,110 KB) -- A commemorative brochure issued in 1996 on the commission's 35th anniversary. (updated 1999)

Development of a Protocol for a Chemical Translator from Total Recoverable to Dissolved Metal in the Delaware River (1996)

Revised Procedure for Converting Total Recoverable Water Quality Criteria for Metals to Dissolved Criteria (1995) (59 KB)

Low Altitude Remote Sensing Study (1995)

Revised Aquatic Life Criteria for Lead (1995) (26 KB)

DRBC Water Snapshot (this program has been discontinued)

Snapshot: A Report Card on the Health of Delaware River Basin Waterways (2000) (715 KB)

Snapshot '98 Report (2,872 KB)

Snapshot '97 Report (790 KB)

Snapshot '96 Report

DRBCurrents Newsletter (no longer published)

Winter 2000/2001 (308 KB)