Watershed Management Area 1
Upper Delaware

Watershed Management Area 1 inlcudes portions of Sussex, Morris, Hunterdon, and all of Warren counties. It contains 54 Municipalities. This area, also known as the Upper Delaware River Watershed encompasses 746 square miles in the mountainous northwestern corner of the state, within the Valley and Ridge and Highlands physiographic provinces.

Within Area 1 there are six major drainage basins: Delaware River, Flat Brook, Paulins Kill, Pequest River, Lopatcong and Pohatcong River Drainage, and the Musconetcong River. These drainage basins flow in a southeasterly direction to the Delaware River, providing an outstanding recreational resource for trout production and maintenance, as well as habitat for an abundance of wildlife including threatened and endangered species.

For additional information on the Upper Delaware Watershed Management Area, please contact:

Dana Cartwright, WMA 1 Area Manager
Dana.Cartwright@dep.state.nj.us
(609) 292-2051

Or visit the project's website at www.upperdelaware.org

Watershed Management Area 1 Map
Watershed Management Area 1 Factsheet (PDF Format)

Watershed Plans
Swartswood Lake (under development)
Lake Hopatcong (under Restoration Plan)
Musconetcong River (under development)
Paulins Kill River (under development)

Priority Segment for Restoration
Lower Musconetcong - Lebanon Township to Greenwich Township

TMDL Implementation Priorities
Upper Musconetcong Eutrophication (Lake Hopatcong & Lake Musconetcong)
Lower Musconetcong - Lebanon Township to Greenwich Township Fecal TMDL

Active Projects

	Section 319(h) NPS Grant: Watershed Restoration Plan for the Paulins Kill Headwaters to Balesville: Three Phased Approach Sussex County Municipal Utilities Authority and Wallkill River Watershed Management Group This project is utilizing a three-phased approach to assess and identify restoration and management techniques to be implemented to address water quality impairments in the Paulins Kill watershed. In addition, the implementation of three riparian restoration projects utilizing in-kind funds from project partners will be completed during the life of the project.
	Section 319(h) NPS Grant: Swartswood Lake Watershed Diagnostic Assessment Swartswood Lakes and Watershed Association This grant will focus on completing a full diagnostic Lake Characterization, identifying management techniques to address water quality concerns in addition to nuisance aquatic vegetation.
	Stormwater BMP Implementation for Lake Hopatcong The Lake Hopatcong Commission Lake Hopatcong is New Jersey's largest and most heavily utilized freshwater lake. This is an implementation project to address stormwater inputs to Lake Hopatcong. The Refined TMDL and Restoration Plan identifies phosphorus as the root cause of Lake Hopatcong's water quality issues related to excessive weed and algae growth (eutrophication). Stormwater has been identified as a significant contributor of phosophorus to the lake. This project is underway and will help to achieve the TMDL by reducing stormwater based phosphorus loadings from the Borough of Hopatcong and the Township of Jefferson.
	On-site Wastewater Management Planning for Lake Shawnee, Jefferson Township Jefferson Township As part of the Refined TMDL and Restoration Plan phosphorus loadings were broken out on a municipal basis. Lake Shawnee, in Jefferson Township, was identified as providing 7% of the overall phosphorus loadings to Lake Hopatcong as the outflow enters the Jefferson Canals and into Lake Hopatcong. This grant will provide for the Development and establishment of an OWTS Entity; an inventory/tracking process; a targeted educational program; monitoring to provide water quality data; an objective and rational prioritization scheme for the maintenance inspection and possible rehabilitation of existing OWTS, including alternative measures that might be applicable; a protocol, budget, and timeline for implementation of the OWTS Management Plan of the Lake Shawnee watershed.
	Watershed Restoration and Protection Plan for the Musconetcong Watershed - Hampton to Bloomsbury North Jersey Resource Conservation and Development
	Swartswood Lake Stormwater Implementation Project NJDEP's Division of Parks and Forestry

WMA 1 Partners and Links
Clean Water Action Committee
Delaware River Basin Commission
Garden State Grazing Coalition
Lake Hopatcong Commission
Lake Musconetcong Regional Planning Board
Lake Shawnee Association
Liberty Township Environmental Commission
Mountain Lake Community Association & Watershed Advisory Group
Musconetcong Watershed Association
New Jersey Farm Bureau
New Jersey Forest Service, NJDEP
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey (NOFA)
NRCS, North Jersey RC&D
Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Sussex County Agriculture Development Board and Sussex County Board of Agriculture
Sussex County Department of Engineering and Planning
Sussex County Office of GIS
Swartswood State Park
Swartswood Lake Watershed Association
Upper Delaware Watershed Management Project
Wallkill River Watershed Management Group
Warren County Soil Conservation District

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