Executive Director's Message

Winter 2024: News & Views from the Susquehanna River Basin Commission!

Andrew D. Dehoff, P.E., Executive Director

The turn of a new year always makes me stop and appreciate for a moment all we’ve been able to accomplish. Compared to other government agencies we are quite small with less than 65 employees. Yet we continue to regulate thousands of water users in an area roughly the size of South Carolina, sample and monitor across 50,000 miles of waterways, facilitate multiple grant programs, and, as you will read below, still find time to publish groundbreaking studies for the benefit of our watershed.

Of course, our individual staff and scientists do it all with the administrative and financial backing of an interstate government agency. Which makes me marvel even more at the individuals out there making incredible contributions to our basin more or less on their own. Take Charlie and Joyce Andrews for example. You can read about this amazing couple in our Winter 2024 Guardian.

And we know there are a lot of other dedicated volunteers out there, quietly working in small watershed organizations, improving our water quality one tree planting or streambank clean-up at a time. That’s why one of my favorite Commission accomplishments this past year was the launch of our Stream & Watershed Enhancement Grant Program. Financially helping these volunteers help us advance our mission of improving the basin’s waterways just makes sense. To both our hard-working staff and volunteers out there, thank you for every year making our watershed healthier and more resilient than the year before!

Best regards,
Andrew D. Dehoff, P.E.
Executive Director