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• The Commission's advisory committees provide a forum for the exchange of information and viewpoints on a variety of issues. Presentations made at public meetings of the Commission's advisory committees are posted on the DRBC web site for the convenience of participants and the public, in order to encourage informed discussion and debate. However, readers are advised that the Commission cannot attest to the accuracy of the information presented by individuals who are not members of the Commission staff. The views and information contained in these materials are those of the presenters and unless stated otherwise in a particular document, have not been endorsed by the Commission or its personnel.

Committee Liaisons

• Thomas Amidon, 609-477-7253
  
  
• Matt Amato, 609-477-7255

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Membership

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Resolutions

• Resolution 2019-03 (pdf; Continues Committee)
  
  
• Resolution 2012-07 (pdf; Authorizes the Creation of an Expert Panel to Advise the WQAC and the Commission on the Development and Use of a Delaware Estuary Eutrophication Model)
  
  
• Resolution 2011-03 (pdf; Continues Committee)
  
  
• Resolution 2003-8 (Continues Committee) and Resolution 2008-11 (pdf; Amends Resolution 2003-8 By Modifying Membership)
  
  
• Resolution for the Minutes Establishing Consistent Practices Relating to Membership, Record-Keeping and "Green" Meetings for DRBC Advisory Committees (pdf 86 KB; March 2016)

• • Pursuant to the above Resolution for the Minutes, when posted online, presentations and other documents created for use by an advisory committee shall bear the statement "Presented to an advisory committee of the DRBC. Contents should not be published or re-posted in whole or in part without the permission of the author(s) or the committee."

Learn more about DRBC's Water Quality Programs

• DRBC Water Quality Programs

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October 2025: Implementation Strategy

In October 2025, DRBC published "A Strategy to Implement New Dissolved Oxygen Criteria in the Delaware River Estuary." This document outlines a technical approach that the DRBC, EPA and the Estuary states can use, specifically, a wasteload allocation study to be performed by the DRBC that will provide a basis for the states to derive and impose valid numerical effluent limitations. DRBC scientists will continue to work in close cooperation with the EPA and the Estuary co-regulating states (Pa., N.J. and Del.) to support EPA's new DO criteria. 

• A Strategy to Implement New Dissolved Oxygen Criteria in the Delaware River Estuary  (pdf; 2025)

DRBC Bacteria Monitoring Study

• View Study Webpage

NGO Petition: Recreational Use & DRBC Response

• View NGO Petition dated March 2, 2020 (pdf)
  
  
• View DRBC Response Letter dated June 10, 2020 (pdf)

All meeting summaries are pdfs.

Presentations from the February 20, 2007, joint meeting with the Monitoring Advisory Committee (link to the presentations on the MACC page)