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DRBC Staff Present at WRADRB's Fall Conference

Last month, DRBC staff presented at the Water Resources Association of the Delaware River Basin's (WRADRB) 56th Annual Fall Conference, held October 16 at Skytop Lodge, Skytop, Pa. Established in 1959, the non-profit, non-partisan WRADRB brings together basin water users from industry, public and private utilities, and other organizations to promote public information and water resource management.

This year's conference, themed Upstream, Downstream, and the Turning Tide: Applying Science to Policy in the Delaware River Basin, was organized into three sessions:

  1. Flow Management in the Delaware River
  2. Delaware River Basin Water Quality: Vision, Implementation, and Outcomes
  3. Hot Topics in the Basin

Each session included several presentations and culminated with the presenters sitting down for a collective Q&A panel with conference attendees.

DRBC staff work hard to fulfill the commission’s mission of managing and protecting the basin’s water resources. Being able to participate in conferences and educate others about DRBC and what we do are also important parts of that mission.

There was a great turnout for WRADRB's Fall Conference, held at Skytop Lodge in the Pocono Mountains. Photo by DRBC.DRBC's Amy Shallcross provides an overview of flow management in the Delaware River Basin. Photo by DRBC.(From L to R) Jeff Skelding, Friends of the Upper Delaware River, Amy Shallcross, DRBC, Jennifer Garigliano, NYC Dept. of Environmental Protection, and Steve Domber, N.J. Geological and Water Survey, take part in the Flow Management Q&A panel. Photo by DRBC.
Attendees of the WRADRB Conference give each speaker their full attention. Photo by DRBC.Pamela Bush, DRBC, presents on the commission's Special Protection Waters Program, which has been protecting the high quality waters of the non-tidal Delaware River for 25 years. Photo by DRBC.(From L to R) Stefanie Kroll, The Academy of Natural Sciences, Matthew Burd, NYC Dept. of Environmental Protection, Pamela Bush, DRBC, Clare Billet, The William Penn Foundation, and Joe McMahon, Whitehall Township Authority, take part in the Water Quality Q&A panel. Photo by DRBC. Thomas Fikslin, DRBC, is about to begin his presentation on the commission's review of aquatic life uses in the Delaware Estuary. Photo by DRBC.(From L to R) Steven Leach, Normandeau Associates, Michael Dillon, Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP, Thomas Fikslin, DRBC, and Edward Bonner, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, take part in the Hot Topics in the Basin Q&A panel. Photo by DRBC.