VUSP PA Stormwater Symposium Villanova University, PA

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1 VUSP PA Stormwater Symposium Villanova University, PA 1

2 Delaware River Watershed 2 Source: ESRI

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4 Population 8.5M Source: Kauffman U. Delaware 4 Source: OSI

5 Water supply for 17M Source: DRBC 5 Source: NYC DEP

6 $25 billion economic value Source: Kauffman U. Delaware 6 Source: Visit PA

7 1870 s Source: PhillyH2O 7

8 14 Monthly mean Dissolved Oxygen at Ben Franklin Bridge, Philadelphia (mg/l) HYPOXIC CONDITIONS 0 8 Data source: USGS

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12 Delaware River ranked 5th in the nation for highest amount of total toxic discharge 14,805 lb cancer causing chemicals (21 st ) 2,587 lb developmental toxics (26 th ) 2,510 lb reproductive toxics (13 th ) million pounds Total N million pounds NPS 12 Source: USGS SPARROW

13 Lost 100K forested acres each year between Pipelines could be responsible for an additional 6K acres (source: DRN) 13

14 Pesticides commonly detected in surface water and finished drinking water Atrazine, metolachlor, simazine, prometon, alachlor, tebuthiuron, cyanazine, etc. (source: BCC) (source: Berks Nature) 14 Source: USGS

15 3,000 Delaware River Watershed Impervious Cover Square Miles 2,500 2,000 1,500 1, Data Source: NLCD Source: CWP Source: RNajjar, Penn State Source: CIMISS 15

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19 DRWI Phase I: >$230MM in projects, >$35MM in WPF funds $15MM for operations Supporting operations for over 50 organizations $6MM for monitoring Maintaining or collecting data from over 300 stream sites $7MM for restoration $4.5MM to 34 projects leveraging $9.5MM $10MM for protection $4.5MM for 18 projects protecting 13,728 acres leveraging $36.6MM $15MM from USDA Regional Conservation Partnership Program $60MM leveraged to date 19

20 Spending Impact Project tracking Ongoing monitoring Third party evaluation Adaptive management Delaware River Delaware River Watershed Counties 9 Long-Term Integrative Monitoring Sites 9 Project-Specific & General Monitoring Sites!( Restoration Project Awards Protection Project Awards (acres) ") ") ") ") ") Targeted Sub-Watershed Clusters Poconos and Kittatinny Upper Lehigh New Jersey Highlands Middle Schuylkill Schuylkill Highlands Upstream Suburban Philadelphia Brandywine and Christina Kirkwood Cohansey Aquifer 20

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22 Scoring system: Good Fair Poor UPPER LEHIGH POCONO KITTATINNY MIDDLE SCHUYLKILL NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS SCHUYLKILL HIGHLANDS UPSTREAM SUBURBAN PHILADELPHIA BRANDYWINE CHRISTINA 22

23 Challenges of scale and impact persist! Scale of the basin (8 million acres 10 6 ) Scale of the Cluster (500,000 acres 10 4 ) Scale of the focus area (20,000 acres 10 3 ) Scale of the project site (4 acres 10 0 ) Requires leverage of partnerships 150 PA municipalities in focus areas 304 PA municipalities in clusters 525 PA municipalities across the Delaware Basin Plus academic institutions Plus government and non-profit Plus engineering professionals; over 140 registered for this symposium! 23

24 and funding! More state funding? Delaware s Clear Choice New Jersey Keep It Green Pennsylvania Growing Greener Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs) in NJ Community Environmental Projects (CEPs) in PA More private donors? Foundations and individuals More federal recognition? National Parks Estuary Program Delaware River Basin Conservation Act New municipal, regional sources? water funds Program Related Investments (PRIs) Public Conservation Funding in the Delaware River Watershed Conservation Districts $34MM State $53MM County $24MM Municipal $65MM Regional $5MM Power Companies Wastewater Utilities $1MM $2MM Water Purveyors $1MM $350 Million Total Federal $98MM Non Profits $66MM Source: Kauffman, U. Delaware,

25 = Hundreds of municipalities Partners in water quality monitoring E.g., Middle Schuylkill: Reading Area Water Authority, Kutztown Borough, Western Berks Water Authority Partners in planning and code development E.g., Upper Lehigh cluster and Kidder Township Partners in project implementation E.g., Upstream Suburban Philadelphia and $300K to Upper Gwynedd Partners in technical assistance E.g., Delaware Regional Planning Commission municipal panel Dozens of academic partnerships in applied research and monitoring E.g., Moravia, Lehigh, Temple, Villanova, Drexel, Kutztown, Albright, Ursinus, Reading Area Community College Thousands of professional restoration firms E.g., NAM Landscape Architecture, AKRF, Cerulean Project Management, 25

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27 Thank you nfwf.org/delaware ansp.org/research/environmentalresearch/projects/watershed-protection-program/ osiny.org/site/pageserver?pagename=issues _Watershed_Fund_2 williampennfoundation.org/what-we-fundwatershed-protection 27

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