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  Category: Division of Watershed Stewardship


Charter School of Wilmington wins championship in 2019 Delaware Envirothon

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Watershed Stewardship | Date Posted: Monday, April 15, 2019

Charter School of Wilmington Team A is the winner of the 2019 Delaware Envirothon competition held April 11 at DSU’s Outreach and Research Center.



DNREC seeks public comment and input sought for Delaware’s Phase III Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Watershed Stewardship | Date Posted: Friday, April 12, 2019

DNREC is seeking public comment and input for the Delaware Draft Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP), the long-range plan for reducing pollutants that enter the state’s waterways and drain into the Chesapeake Bay.



Blackbird State Forest tree planting on April 13 & 14

Department of Agriculture | Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Watershed Stewardship | Forest Service | New Castle County | News | Date Posted: Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Volunteers are needed to plant 2,000 hardwood seedlings at Blackbird State Forest on Saturday and Sunday, April 13 and 14, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Two seniors from Middletown High School, Bryan Alberding and Nick Kupsick, are leading the project in cooperation with the Delaware Forest Service and the DNREC Nonpoint Source Program (NPS), which is funding the trees. The project will take place on Blackbird State Forest’s Naudain Tract, 2076 Harvey Straughn Road, Townsend, Delaware 19734. The rain date is April 27 and 28, 2019.



DNREC’s Massey’s Ditch Channel maintenance dredging project to be rebid later this year

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Watershed Stewardship | Date Posted: Friday, February 8, 2019

DOVER – The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control’s Shoreline & Waterway Management Section conducted the bid opening for the Massey’s Ditch Channel Maintenance Dredging Project as scheduled on Jan. 30. DNREC did not receive an acceptable bid. As a result, DNREC will update the design specifications and contract documents, and rebid the project later this year. DNREC anticipates that the second invitation to bid, to be announced this spring, will allow a four-month dredging window between Nov. 1 and March 1, 2020.



DNREC announces revised sediment and stormwater regulations for Delaware will go into effect Feb. 11

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Watershed Stewardship | Date Posted: Friday, February 1, 2019

DOVER – Revised Delaware sediment and stormwater regulations from the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control will become effective Feb. 11, DNREC Secretary Shawn M. Garvin announced today. The regulations were developed with diverse public participation through a Regulatory Advisory Committee (RAC), Secretary Garvin said, with RAC members forging a consensus on a range of regulatory issues. The revised sediment and stormwater regulations announced today correct a previous procedural flaw in the prior adoption of regulations by DNREC, as initially determined by the Delaware Superior Court, and later upheld by the State Supreme Court. Revisions to the regulations that go into effect this month included incorporating parts of the former DNREC Technical Document guidance into the actual regulations, consistent with the judicial opinions.






  Category: Division of Watershed Stewardship

Charter School of Wilmington wins championship in 2019 Delaware Envirothon

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Watershed Stewardship | Date Posted: Monday, April 15, 2019

Charter School of Wilmington Team A is the winner of the 2019 Delaware Envirothon competition held April 11 at DSU’s Outreach and Research Center.



DNREC seeks public comment and input sought for Delaware’s Phase III Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Watershed Stewardship | Date Posted: Friday, April 12, 2019

DNREC is seeking public comment and input for the Delaware Draft Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP), the long-range plan for reducing pollutants that enter the state’s waterways and drain into the Chesapeake Bay.



Blackbird State Forest tree planting on April 13 & 14

Department of Agriculture | Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Watershed Stewardship | Forest Service | New Castle County | News | Date Posted: Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Volunteers are needed to plant 2,000 hardwood seedlings at Blackbird State Forest on Saturday and Sunday, April 13 and 14, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Two seniors from Middletown High School, Bryan Alberding and Nick Kupsick, are leading the project in cooperation with the Delaware Forest Service and the DNREC Nonpoint Source Program (NPS), which is funding the trees. The project will take place on Blackbird State Forest’s Naudain Tract, 2076 Harvey Straughn Road, Townsend, Delaware 19734. The rain date is April 27 and 28, 2019.



DNREC’s Massey’s Ditch Channel maintenance dredging project to be rebid later this year

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Watershed Stewardship | Date Posted: Friday, February 8, 2019

DOVER – The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control’s Shoreline & Waterway Management Section conducted the bid opening for the Massey’s Ditch Channel Maintenance Dredging Project as scheduled on Jan. 30. DNREC did not receive an acceptable bid. As a result, DNREC will update the design specifications and contract documents, and rebid the project later this year. DNREC anticipates that the second invitation to bid, to be announced this spring, will allow a four-month dredging window between Nov. 1 and March 1, 2020.



DNREC announces revised sediment and stormwater regulations for Delaware will go into effect Feb. 11

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Watershed Stewardship | Date Posted: Friday, February 1, 2019

DOVER – Revised Delaware sediment and stormwater regulations from the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control will become effective Feb. 11, DNREC Secretary Shawn M. Garvin announced today. The regulations were developed with diverse public participation through a Regulatory Advisory Committee (RAC), Secretary Garvin said, with RAC members forging a consensus on a range of regulatory issues. The revised sediment and stormwater regulations announced today correct a previous procedural flaw in the prior adoption of regulations by DNREC, as initially determined by the Delaware Superior Court, and later upheld by the State Supreme Court. Revisions to the regulations that go into effect this month included incorporating parts of the former DNREC Technical Document guidance into the actual regulations, consistent with the judicial opinions.