The Delaware Bay Basin is one of the four main drainage basins in our state, and empties into the Delaware Bay and Estuary. Located in eastern New Castle, Kent, and Sussex Counties, the Basin has an area of about 520,960 acres.

This was the final basin evaluated by DNREC's Whole Basin Management Program, assessing the overall environmental health of the basin. We developed a comprehensive plan to address its environmental problems, and are using community outreach to promote education about the problems we found, teaching you about the many things you can do to help improve water quality in your area. We would like to help you learn some of today's many improved stewardship and wise resource use approaches to managing the various watersheds where you live and work. As part of this process, we would like to invite you and your neighbors to join with us, sharing your ideas, concerns, and opinions about water quality issues in your area.

As you spend time visiting us here, please think about the problems and issues that concern you in your area, and how we might improve things where you live. We invite you to share these with us through our contact form.

Let's all work together to create an environmental legacy we'll be proud to pass on to future generations, remembering that we are borrowing these treasures from our children. Let's leave them with the same natural wealth our ancestors left for us to experience and enjoy!