The Delaware Riverkeeper Network’s publications are available for purchase via our River Shop. 

  • In Defense of Watersheds: Protecting Your Community From Flooding Without Dams
    Dams and regional detention basins are proliferating in an effort to control increased flooding in the Delaware River Watershed.  Stormwater runoff from sprawling development is the root cause of much of our flooding, of more frequent and more severe drought conditions, and of a downward spiral in the health of our streams.  This approach is not effective, economically viable, or even necessary.  In Defense of Watersheds explains how nonstructural solutions and preventive conservation efforts work more effectively and provides a step by step guide on how to make better alternatives a reality in your community.

  • Stormwater Runoff:  Lost Resource or Community Asset?  A Guide to Preventing, Capturing and recovering Stormwater Runoff
    This handbook is a user-friendly guide to preventing, capturing and recovering stormwater, thereby reducing flooding and pollution.  Citizens, decision-makers, and professionals are encouraged to progress beyond the limited and damaging stormwater management practices that have been the standard for the past three decades.  This guide walks the reader through problems and solutions in an extensively documented and readable way. Fact sheets are included, packed with information about conservation design methods, best management practices and natural resource protection techniques.

  • Stream Restoration in Pennsylvania:  Ten Case Studies
    The process and completion of ten specific restoration projects in the state of Pennsylvania.  Techniques and approaches to organizing projects are included, as well as implementation strategies.

  • 25 Ways to Protect your Stream and Streamside Property
    This brochure is designed to help homeowners manage the highly delicate areas around the streams and creeks on their properties.  A list of recommended plants for streamside planting is the centerpiece of this informative brochure.

  • Adopt-A-Buffer Toolkit:  Monitoring and Maintaining Restoration Projects
    This information-packed manual is for local watershed groups, restoration practitioners and volunteer monitors who implement stream restoration projects.  Delaware Riverkeeper Network has field tested these protocols and is using this Toolkit for its own Adopt-A-Buffer Initiative, which  monitors over eighty restoration projects in the Delaware Watershed.  Included is a series of maintenance fact sheets that address common issues and challenges.