
1997 - DNREC assists PDE in establishing its first office at Bellevue State PArk in Wilmington, Delaware

2002- PDE holds the first Pennsylvania Coast Day (now the Delaware River Festival) at Fairmount Water Works in Philadelphia

2005 - the Delaware Bay Oyster Restoration Project and campaign launched, with 280,000 bushels of oyster shell planted the first year

2005- First Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit takes place, brining together 248 people