Through the Delaware River Watershed Initiative, the William Penn Foundation has invested millions of dollars to reduce nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment in non-point source pollution impacting Delaware River tributaries, focusing on land protection and agricultural restoration activities.
The Foundation engaged EFC to lead a scoping and feasibility analysis of existing and potential tools (such as computer modeling, GIS mapping, etc.) to evaluate and predict the impact of land protection and agricultural restoration activities on water quality in the basin. This analysis resulted in recommendations for developing a watershed needs assessment that either integrates existing data and tools or creates a new system in order to enable evaluation of past investments and strategic targeting of future investments, measured against stakeholder-determined goals for the basin’s waters.
This watershed needs assessment was designed for use by Delaware River Watershed Initiative partners, as well as for other organizations throughout the watershed to support their planning for water quality activities.
Partners
Academy of Natural Sciences, Drexel University; Chesapeake Commons; Delaware River Basin Commission; Institute for Conservation Leadership; Limnotech; National Fish and Wildlife Foundation; Natural Lands; Open Space Institute; Partnership for the Delaware Estuary; River Network; Shippensburg University; Stroud Water Research Center USGS; US Fish and Wildlife Service
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