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Highlights
" " PCBs in the Delaware Estuary Flyer (73 KB*)
" " PCB TMDL for Zone 6 (Delaware Bay) Established - December 2006 (link to EPA web site)
 
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Powerpoint Presentation by DRBC Staff at the September 26, 2006 Public Meeting in Dover, Del. (599 KB*)
" " Revised Calibration of the Water Quality Model for the Delaware Estuary for Penta-PCBs and Carbon (September 2006 - 5.5 MB*)
" " PCB TMDLs for Zones 2-5 Established - December 2003 (link to EPA web site)
 
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DRBC Final Report: TMDLs for PCBs For Zones 2-5 of the Tidal Delaware River (1.8 MB*)
 
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DRBC DYNHYD5 Hydrodynamic Model (Version 2.0) and Chloride Water Quality Model for the Delaware Estuary (7.1 MB*)
 
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DRBC PCB Water Quality Model for the Delaware Estuary (387 KB*)
" " Revised Human Health Criterion for PCBs for the Delaware Estuary using the 2000 U.S. EPA Methodology (60 KB*)
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Pollutant Minimization Plan (PMP) Information
" " Delaware Toxics Reduction Program (DelTRiP)
" " Monitoring for PCBs
" " PCB Fact Sheet (171 KB*)
" " TMDL Fact Sheet (248 KB*)
" " DRBC Toxics Advisory Committee
DRBC Resolutions
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Resolution Establishing the PMP Peer Review Advisory Committee (May 10, 2006 - 17 KB*)
" " Resolution Directing the DRBC Executive Director to Secure from EPA Regional Administrators their Written Concurrence as to the Water Quality (WQ) Endpoints for the PCB TMDL to be Developed for Zone 6; to Proceed with Notice and Comment Rulemaking on a Revised Human Health WQ Criterion for PCBs; and to Take Steps to Develop Recommendations for Implementing WQ Criteria that Cannot be Achieved within One Permit Cycle (December 7, 2005)
" " PMP Resolution (May 18, 2005)
" " Resolution on Further Data Collection for Estuary Toxics Management (December 3, 2003)
" " Resolution Authorizing and Requesting the DRBC Executive Director to Undertake Certain Actions in Connection with the Development of TMDLs for PCBs in the Delaware Estuary (March 19, 2003)
" " Resolution to Control Estuary Toxics (July 26, 2000)
" " DRBC Takes Action to Control Delaware River Toxics (January 26, 2000 News Release)
 
" " Resolution 2000-4
" " Executive Summary to Toxics Public Hearing Response Document
Reports and Other Background Information
" " Delaware Toxics Reduction Program (DelTRiP)
" " Metal Bank Superfund Site
" " PCB Report Released by the New York Academy of Sciences and the New York/New Jersey Harbor Consortium (February 2005)
" " Bioaccumulation of PCBs in the Delaware River Estuary Report (January 2004)
" " Sedimentological and Geophysical Survey of the Upper Delaware Estuary (October 2003)
" " Reducing PCB Loadings to the Delaware Estuary: A Staged Approach to Establishing TMDLs (April 2003)
 
" " Handout (210 KB*)
" " Powerpoint Presentation (191 KB*)
" " Op-Ed: The Delaware River is Not What it Used to Be - That's the Good News! (March 2000)
Fish Consumption Information
" " Fish and Shellfish Tissue Data from Samples Collected in the Delaware Estuary
" " State-Issued Fish Consumption Advisories
 
" " Delaware
" " New Jersey
" " New York
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Pennsylvania
 
" " 2003 Delaware Estuary Fish Consumption Survey Technical Report* (A Project of the Pennsylvania Coastal Zone Management Program)
" " U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Fish Consumption Advisory Web Site
 
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