Water Resources Research Act Program

Details for Project ID 2005DE53B

Delaware River Basin State of the Basin Report Card

Institute: Delaware
Year Established: 2005 Start Date: 2005-06-01 End Date: 2006-02-28
Total Federal Funds: $1,750 Total Non-Federal Funds: $3,500

Principal Investigators: Gerald Kauffman

Project Summary: This proposal is to assemble a State of the Basin Report Card for the Delaware River Basin. The September 2004 Water Resources Plan for the Delaware River Basin recommends developing a set of indicators to assess baseline conditions and measure progress toward objectives that can be published in a State of the Basin Report. The Delaware Estuary Program is required by its 1996 Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan to regularly update the State of the Estuary Report, last published in 2002. We envision that the water resources institutes for the four land grant universities for the states in the basin Cornell, University of Delaware, Rutgers, and Penn State - would collaborate to collect available watershed data and work with the DRBC and the DELEP to prepare the State of the Basin Report Card grades. The University of Delaware Water Resources Agency would serve as coordinator for this yearlong project