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Register by Friday, Oct. 8, for the 2004 Water Policy Forum, “The Historic Christina Basin: Delaware’s First Watershed,” to be held at University of Delaware’s Clayton Hall from 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 13. The forum is free and open to the public.

Discussions, presentations and posters at the forum will focus on the waterways that make up the Christina Basin—a watershed that encompasses land in Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland drained by the White Clay, Red Clay and Brandywine creeks and the Christina River. Participants will learn about the Christina Basin’s history, stream health, interstate and interagency cooperative advocacy and management, residential water-quality measures and other new and ongoing initiatives that have made the basin number one in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s national rankings. There will be a field trip to the Newark reservoir construction site at the end of the forum.

Forum speakers, panelists and presenters include representatives of the Delaware Water Resources Center, UD’s Institute for Public Administration, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, watershed scientists, administrators and advocates from Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Gerald Kauffman, state water coordinator and director of watershed policy for the Delaware Water Resources Agency in UD’s College of Human Services, Education & Public Policy, will keynote the luncheon. Kauffman provides regional watershed technical and policy assistance to state and local governments in Delaware and the Delaware Valley through the University's public service, education and research role.

To preregister, call (302) 831-4925, fax (302) 831-4934 or e-mail [rfallis@udel.edu]. Include organization, name, title, address, phone number and e-mail address.

For more information and the forum brochure, schedule and directions, visit [http://ag.udel.edu/dwrc/].

The forum is sponsored by the Delaware Water Resources Center, University of Delaware Institute for Public Administration, Water Resources Agency, Delaware Geological Survey and the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control.

Contact: Barbara Garrison, (302) 831-1964
Sept. 17, 2004