The US EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office commissioned the University of Maryland Environmental Finance Center (EFC) to identify options for Delaware to sufficiently and efficiently finance water quality restoration practices, in order to achieve pollutant load reduction targets for the Chesapeake Bay and to clean up waters in the 70% of the state that does not drain to the Bay. To conduct this analysis, the EFC interviewed Delaware state agency staff and reviewed the Task Force findings as well as the state’s existing funding streams and financing mechanisms for water quality restoration. Through this analysis, the EFC identified opportunities for Delaware to both narrow its water quality funding gap as well as change the way in which it finances restoration so that investments are made as efficiently and effectively as possible.