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DPH Recognizes May as Lyme Disease Awareness Month
Date Posted: May 10, 2024

AG Jennings announces $10.25 million settlement with multiple major wireless carriers over deceptive advertising
Date Posted: May 9, 2024

Dept. of Labor Announces New Apprenticeship Pathway to College Credit for Delaware’s Vocational Workforce
Date Posted: May 9, 2024

Delaware Teachers Deserve Continuous Appreciation
Date Posted: May 8, 2024

Delaware to Join Public-Private Partnership to Build New Port
Date Posted: May 8, 2024

Jason Schaffer promoted to Deputy Warden at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center
Date Posted: May 7, 2024

DHSS Releases Fourth Annual Health Care Benchmark Trend Report
Date Posted: May 7, 2024

Departments of Labor & Education Team with Jobs for the Future to Celebrate National Youth Apprenticeship Week
Date Posted: May 7, 2024

Navarro Announces Completion of First Pharmacy Benefit Manager Exams
Date Posted: May 7, 2024

AG Jennings Secures Over $270 Million Settlement in Principle with Amneal Pharmaceuticals for Role in Opioid Crisis
Date Posted: May 6, 2024

May is Motorcycle Awareness Month
Date Posted: May 6, 2024

Delawareans Can Buy Discounted Compost Bins Online Through State-Initiated Program
Date Posted: May 6, 2024

Governor Carney Commends State of Delaware Employees in Celebration of Public Service Recognition Week, May 5-11
Date Posted: May 6, 2024

Brutal jewelry store robbery and assault results in conviction on all charges
Date Posted: May 6, 2024

Office of Marijuana Commissioner Opens Social Equity Workshop Registration
Date Posted: May 3, 2024

DNREC, City of Wilmington Unveil Revamped 7th Street Boating and Fishing Access Area
Date Posted: May 3, 2024

The Mezzanine Gallery to exhibit “15,000 Dowels” by Gregg Silvis
Date Posted: May 3, 2024

Governor Carney Announces Compassionate Champion Award Winners to Kick off Trauma Awareness Month
Date Posted: May 2, 2024

The Office of the Marijuana Commissioner Has Published the Official Proposed Regulations.
Date Posted: May 2, 2024

Nominate a Young Environmentalist for DNREC Awards
Date Posted: May 2, 2024

First employers sign onto transformative Delaware EARNS retirement benefit
Date Posted: May 2, 2024

Governor Carney Announces Delaware’s General Obligation Bonds Again Earn Triple-A Ratings and Attract Excellent Pricing
Date Posted: May 1, 2024

Northeast Insurance Departments Highlight Lyme Awareness Month
Date Posted: May 1, 2024

DOJ secures a murder conviction for violent gun offender
Date Posted: April 30, 2024

Delaware Forest Service Celebrates Arbor Day and Poster Contest Winners at Abbott’s Mill
Date Posted: April 30, 2024

Delaware Expands Electric Vehicle Rebates to Include Used Models Starting May 1
Date Posted: April 30, 2024

New Enforcement for Traffic Safety of Motorists Around Commercial Motor Vehicles
Date Posted: April 29, 2024

DOJ secures guilty plea for violent gun offender in cold case murder
Date Posted: April 29, 2024

DNREC Reopens Mulberry Landing Boat Ramp After Parking Lot Expansion
Date Posted: April 29, 2024

OSHA Delaware Unveils SafeDE on Worker’s Memorial Day, Pioneering a Safer Future for Workers
Date Posted: April 29, 2024

DSB Highlights Activities for National Small Business Week/Month 2024
Date Posted: April 26, 2024

Apply Now for Nonprofit Security Grant Program
Date Posted: April 26, 2024

DNREC, Center for Inland Bays to Partner on ‘Water Family Fest’ and Native Plant Sale Saturday, May 4
Date Posted: April 26, 2024

Charter School of Wilmington Wins 2024 Delaware Envirothon Championship
Date Posted: April 25, 2024

DSHA Celebrates $125 Million In Funding To Help Delawareans Achieve Homeownership
Date Posted: April 25, 2024

DNREC to Offer Training for Volunteer Monitors of Delaware’s Beach-Nesting Birds
Date Posted: April 25, 2024

Delaware Tutoring Efforts Recognized by National Learning Collaborative
Date Posted: April 25, 2024

DNREC Launches Online Flood Planning Tool
Date Posted: April 24, 2024

Kids Invited to Cast a Line at Youth Fishing Tournament
Date Posted: April 23, 2024

Delaware Officials Provide Latest Updates, Underscore Urgency Regarding Substance Use Disorder Outcomes in Delaware
Date Posted: April 22, 2024

DSB Partners with SBDC to Support Small Business Loan Program
Date Posted: April 22, 2024

Governor Carney Announces Opening of Application Period for Student Representative on State Board of Education
Date Posted: April 22, 2024

Delaware Forest Service Joins Daughters of the American Revolution to Establish Memorial Forest in Sussex County
Date Posted: April 22, 2024

Delaware Division of the Arts and The Biggs Museum of American Art Open Award Winners XXIV Exhibition
Date Posted: April 22, 2024

Delaware State Housing Authority Welcomes Emily Cunningham As Chief Of Staff
Date Posted: April 22, 2024

DPH Hosts Family Assistance Center Emergency Response Full-Scale Exercise
Date Posted: April 19, 2024

Attorney General Kathy Jennings supports new rules targeting money laundering
Date Posted: April 19, 2024

Delaware Division of the Arts Announces 13th Annual State Employee Art Exhibition Winners
Date Posted: April 19, 2024

NASCAR Driver Ross Chastain Partners with the Delaware Office of Highway Safety for 2024 Events
Date Posted: April 18, 2024

Three Schools Earn Delaware Purple Star Recognition
Date Posted: April 18, 2024

Wilmington’s Cab Calloway School of the Arts Crowned Junior Solar Sprint Champion
Date Posted: April 18, 2024

State Honors Top High School Seniors as 2024 Secretary of Education Scholars
Date Posted: April 18, 2024

DHSS Announces Health Fund Applications Due July 15
Date Posted: April 17, 2024

Delaware State Housing Authority Announces The Launch Of Its New And Improved Website
Date Posted: April 17, 2024

Governor Carney Orders Lowering of Flags
Date Posted: April 16, 2024

Delaware State Fire Commission Welcomes Mental Health and Wellness Administrator.
Date Posted: April 16, 2024

DelDOT Highlights National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week “Become a hero toward zero, their lives depend on it.”
Date Posted: April 16, 2024

The Delaware Office of Highway Safety Increases Enforcement for National Distracted Driving Awareness Month
Date Posted: April 15, 2024

Suspended Trooper faces prison after pleading guilty to six charges, including two felonies
Date Posted: April 12, 2024

Lt. Governor, School Districts, Philanthropist Launch Monetary Awards Program for Black Students
Date Posted: April 11, 2024

Attorney General Jennings obtains victory for manufactured housing residents
Date Posted: April 11, 2024

Delaware Cancer Consortium Hosts 2024 Biennial Retreat
Date Posted: April 10, 2024

$100,000 Grant Announced To Support Eviction Prevention Services In Delaware
Date Posted: April 9, 2024

Final NorthPak defendant convicted of two murders, more than 50 felonies
Date Posted: April 8, 2024

DHSS Seeks Comment on State Plan on Aging at Public Hearings This Month
Date Posted: April 5, 2024

Delaware Advances Toward 1 Million Tree Planting Goal
Date Posted: April 5, 2024

Treasurer Davis Encourages Delawareans to Prioritize Saving
Date Posted: April 5, 2024

Delaware Overdose Deaths Decrease for the First Time in Decade
Date Posted: April 4, 2024

State Offers Support for Students Applying for Financial Aid
Date Posted: April 4, 2024

Governor Carney, Secretary Garvin Celebrate Expansion of White Clay Creek State Park
Date Posted: April 3, 2024

State Agencies Join Forces Against Illegal Trash Dumping
Date Posted: April 2, 2024

DNREC to Offer Earth Day Beach Cleanup, Kids Crafts
Date Posted: April 2, 2024

Future Health Care Workers Win State Awards
Date Posted: April 2, 2024

The Mezzanine Gallery to exhibit “Within the Intimate Realm” by E. Schwinn
Date Posted: April 1, 2024

31-year DOC veteran named Warden of Howard R. Young Correctional Institution
Date Posted: March 28, 2024

Scotton Landing Boat Ramp Reopens for Spring
Date Posted: March 27, 2024

Delaware Teachers Named Finalists for National Mathematics, Science Teaching Award
Date Posted: March 27, 2024

Walk Down Memory Lane at Delaware Public Archives
Date Posted: March 27, 2024

DE Auditor Issues Special Report on Unemployment Insurance
Date Posted: March 26, 2024

DMV on the Go Gears Up for 2024 Season
Date Posted: March 26, 2024

Two Students to Represent Delaware at National Science Camp
Date Posted: March 26, 2024

Department of Correction Expands Enhanced Mail Screening System To All State Prison Facilities
Date Posted: March 26, 2024

2024 Lt. Governor’s Challenge Seeks Applicants for Wellness Leader Awards
Date Posted: March 25, 2024

51st Annual DETSA Conference Celebrates Young Leaders, STEM and Innovation
Date Posted: March 25, 2024

DNREC Announces ‘Take a Kid Fishing!’ Spring Events
Date Posted: March 22, 2024

Bill Introduced to Protect Entities Serving the Legal Marijuana Industry
Date Posted: March 21, 2024

DNREC to Host Virtual Meeting on Deauville Beach Management Transition and New Entrance Fee Proposal
Date Posted: March 21, 2024

Delaware Inducts Three Farm Families into Century Farm Program
Date Posted: March 21, 2024

DPH Observes World Tuberculosis (TB) Day on March 24
Date Posted: March 21, 2024

DNREC, Kent Conservation District Offer Chesapeake Bay Implementation Grant Funding for Septic Tank Pump-outs
Date Posted: March 21, 2024

DNREC to Seek Community Water Project Proposals
Date Posted: March 20, 2024

Selbyville Fire
Date Posted: March 19, 2024

Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, Gov. Carney Announce Further Child Care Investments and Initiatives
Date Posted: March 19, 2024

Middle and High School Students Invited to Compete in Digital Mapping Technology Contest
Date Posted: March 19, 2024

Emergency Sirens Test on April 2 and Potassium Iodide Event on April 4 in Middletown
Date Posted: March 19, 2024

Governor Carney Seeks Applications for Governor’s Summer Fellowship Program
Date Posted: March 19, 2024

Delaware to Open Upstate Trout Season With Youth-Only Fishing Day Set for April 6
Date Posted: March 19, 2024

First State Food System Program Opens Third Grant Application Cycle
Date Posted: March 18, 2024

Cynthia Karnai Confirmed As Director Of Delaware State Housing Authority
Date Posted: March 18, 2024

Governor’s Outstanding Volunteer Service Award Honorees to Be Recognized at April 4 Ceremony
Date Posted: March 18, 2024

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Category: Division of Watershed Stewardship

DNREC establishes 21-day timeframe for extended closure of Delaware Bay for recreational shellfish harvest

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Water | Division of Watershed Stewardship | Date Posted: Wednesday, July 26, 2017

As reported this week to the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control’s Surface Water Discharges Section, Kent County’s wastewater treatment plant is back within acceptable water quality levels for the effluent discharged into the Murderkill River – leading DNREC to establish a timeframe for a federally-advised 21-day closure of recreational shellfish harvest in the Delaware Bay north of the Mispillion Inlet. The 21-day closure in effect for potential public health risks extends from July 24 to Aug. 14.

Make an ‘ECOnnection’ with DNREC at this year’s Delaware State Fair

With the 2017 Delaware State Fair throwing open the gates today for its fun-filled 10-day run (Thursday, July 20 thru Saturday, July 29), DNREC is again right in the middle of the annual extravaganza – with an array of environmental displays in a newly-climate-controlled State Fair building, and game prizes to be won by kids of all ages for showing their knowledge about the state’s natural resources and environment.

DNREC closes recreational shellfish harvest in north Delaware Bay due to undertreated wastewater from Kent County treatment plant

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Water | Division of Watershed Stewardship | Date Posted: Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Secretary Shawn M. Garvin today directed the Kent County wastewater treatment plant to take immediate action to correct an ongoing discharge of undertreated effluent that prompted the Secretary to issue an emergency order for the closure of recreational shellfishing in the Delaware Bay north of the entrance to the Mispillion Inlet. The emergency closure impacts only the harvest of bivalve molluscan shellfish – clams, oysters and mussels – and does not affect the legal harvest of other shellfish species such as crabs and conchs.

DNREC, Division of Public Health now accepting proposals for wastewater, surface water, and drinking water planning grants

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Public Health | Division of Watershed Stewardship | Date Posted: Tuesday, July 11, 2017

The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control’s Division of Watershed Stewardship and Office of Environmental Finance, and the Delaware Division of Public Health are now accepting project proposals from state, county, and municipal governments, and conservation districts for matching grants for wastewater, surface water and drinking water project planning. Proposals must be received by 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 23.

Preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps appeal period runs to Sept. 1 for parts of Kent and Sussex County

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Watershed Stewardship | Date Posted: Tuesday, June 27, 2017

DNREC’s Division of Watershed Stewardship reminds residents of Kent and Sussex County that preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps for portions of the two counties released last year by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are currently in a 90-day regulatory appeal period that ends Sept. 1.

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