WEST TRENTON NJ – The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) announced on Wednesday the termination of its drought management special permit in effect since Nov. 23, 2016, when the basin was placed in a drought watch.
“Due to recent precipitation and snow melt, combined storage in three large upper basin reservoirs has achieved and sustained a sufficient level for five consecutive days to result in automatic termination of the basinwide drought watch,” said DRBC Executive Director Steve Tambini. “Although upper basin reservoir storage has rebounded in recent weeks automatically ending the drought watch operations, other indicators such as groundwater levels, stream flows, precipitation, soil moisture, and local reservoir storage have not all recovered. As a result, various state-issued drought watches and warnings based on those indicators remain in effect across most of the basin.”
Combined storage in the three upper basin reservoirs, in New York’s Catskills, had been as low as 39.3% of capacity in late November 2016. The reservoirs are currently at about 58% of capacity, which is approximately 70 billion gallons below normal for this time of the year.
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