The Environmental Protection Agency recognizes the Delaware Estuary as an estuary of significance

Partnership for the Delaware Estuary officially incorporated as a non-profit organization

PDE moves into its first office at Bellevue State Park in Wilmington, Delaware, with help from DNREC

PDE holds its first Experience the Estuary Celebration at the Camden Aquarium.

PDE moves offices to 9th and Orange Street in downtown Wilmington, Delaware

PDE becomes the host of the Delaware Estuary Program

PDE offices move to current location by the Riverfront in Wilmington, Delaware

Science and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) for the Delaware Estuary forms to advise the National Estuary Program on emerging concerns and long-term health of the estuary's resources

PDE celebrates its 10-year anniversary. Read more

First mussel hatchery established in partnership with Cheyney University

PDE publishes its first State of the Estuary report. Click here to see.

PDE's first living shoreline project of the Delaware Estuary Living Shorelines Initiative is built outside of Bivalve, New Jersey. This is in partnership with the Rutgers University Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory. Read more

PDE becmes a member of the Delaware River Watershed Initiative

PDE opens freshwater mussel hatchery lab at Fairmount Water Works Educational Center in Philadelphia

Delaware Estuary Program revises CCMP for the first time since original was published in 1996. Implementation of new CCMP announced. Read more.

PDE celebrates its 25th anniversary