Wild & Scenic Partnership Video Workshop

Educate yourself on what the Wild & Scenic Designation means and hear from leading experts in the region including Lower Delaware’s NPS Liaison, Sarah Bursky. Video courtesy of the Coalition for the Delaware River Watershed. (Runs 1.5 hours.)

Watch Video Here... 

The Lower Delaware recently submitted these comment letters:

• Springfield Twp, PA Letter On Quarry Proposal
• Letter to DRBC on PennEast, November 2020
• Comments: Bedminster, PA Proposed Ordinances
• Letter to FERC on PennEast Environmental Assessment Process, September 2, 2020
• Letter to FERC on PennEast, March 2020
• FERC Motion to Intervene, PennEast
• PennEast Application Extension (Council Letter to FERC)
• Warehouse Development Proposal (Council Letter to White Twp, NJ)
• Francis E. Walter Dam Revaluation Study (Letter from NPS to Army Corps of Engineers)
• Expansion of Trenton-Mercer Airport (Council Letter to Mercer County, NJ Officials)

Thanks to 100 plus volunteers, and many nonprofit and governmental sponsors, the 3rd Annual NJ Clean Communities Delaware River Cleanup was a success with over 100 bags of garbage, 20 tires and larger pieces of debris collected. We look forward to the 4th annual event tentatively on Sept. 18, 2021.

See photos here.

Seventy-five years ago, the Delaware River was choked with sewage and industrial pollution.

Thanks to a combination of federal and state safeguards and local innovation, the Delaware is a river reborn – and a model for other river restoration efforts across the country!

Read more here... 

Water levels on the Delaware are constantly changing. The USGS provides online tools to monitor the flow of the Delaware River and its tributaries, helping us to safely enjoy our river. 
Learn more here...

Congratulations to the 2020 Lower Delaware Wild & Scenic River mini-grant winners. These grantees will share $20,000 in funding for their projects.

• Bridgeton Township, PA for a Study: Bridgeton Township Steep Slope Protection.
• Bucks County Audubon Society for Invasive Plant Management: Honey Hollow Creek - Riparian Buffer and Erosion Mitigation.
• Delaware Riverkeeper Network for Advocacy: Protecting the Tohickon Creek on Historical Community Upgrade Petition.
• NJ Conservation Foundation for a Study and Research: Protecting Water Quality in the Delaware River Watershed: eDNA Testing for the Highly Invasive Chinese Pond Mussel.
• Trout Unlimited for a Survey: Evaluating Road-Stream Crossings for Aquatic Organism Passage in the Lower Delaware Wild & Scenic River Municipalities.

Plans for the 2021 program will be announced at the end of the year or in early 2021.

Care About PA's Tohickon Creek?

We are tracking a potential Tohickon Creek water quality downgrade. Longtime Wild & Scenic Steering Committee Member Val Sigstedt writes, “It is wrong, arbitrary, sudden, and with no scientific reason, to lower the Tohickon’s purity designation.”

• Read an article in the Tinicum Conservancy News.
• Read the NPS comments here.
• Read PA State Rep. Wendy Ullman’s relevant op-ed about the Bucks County tributary here.
• Read the Delaware Riverkeeper Network's comments here.
• Read the Bucks County Planning Commission's comments here.
• Read the Lower Delaware Wild & Scenic Management Council's comments here.
• Read more from The Intelligencer here.
• Read the proposal and 900 public comments here.

Rockface To Radically Change, Plans Unveiled by NJDOT:

Aesthetics are expected to change at Devil’s Tea Table in Hunterdon County, NJ as a result of NJDOT plans for rockfall mitigation to improve Rt. 29 roadway safety in Kingwood Twp.

Recently mentioned in NJ.com.

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Checkout water monitoring by the Lehigh River Stocking Association, dedicated to the continuous improvement of this waterway and its tributaries. Their objectives are to ensure clean water, public access, and an abundant trout fishery for everyone to enjoy.

2020 Event Cancelled
2021: June 19-26 “Focus on Fish”

2019 Sojourn in the news:

Sojourn promotes Delaware River history

Delaware River Sojourn Promotes Conservation, Nurtures Sense of Family 

The Lower Delaware was designated in 2000 as a Wild and Scenic River 

• from river mile 193.8 to the northern border of the City of Easton;
• from south of the Gilbert Generating Stations to north of the point Pleasant Pumping Station;
• from South of the Point Pleasant Pumping Station to 1,000 feet north of the Route 202 Bridge;
• from 1,750 feet south of the Route 202 bridge to Washington Crossing.

Additionally some of the tributaries in the Lower Delaware were also designated including Tinicum Creek, (headwaters of two upper branches to the Delaware River confluence), Tohickon Creek, (downstream of Lake Nockamixon to the Delaware River confluence), and Paunacussing Creek, (portions passing through Solebury Township to the Delaware River). The Musconetcong River, (3.5 mile stretch from Saxton Falls to Route 46 and the 20.7 mile stretch from King’s Highway Bridget to railroad tunnels at Musconetcong Gorge), was designated in 2006.

Read more about about the Lower Delaware's Wild and Scenic Designation.....

Looking forward to our June 2021 event.
Sponsors: DRGP, PA Delaware Canal Park, NJ D&R State Park

• Management Plan

• Action Plan

• Stewardship Handbook

• Aresenic Study