PSEG Estuary Enhancement Program – Various Locations in New Jersey and Delaware

  Both Heather and Shawn Shotzberger have had the privilege of working on this groundbreaking project at various times since the project’s inception in 1994. This ground-breaking project was conducted as part of PSEG’s New Jersey Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NJPDES) permit for the Salem Generating Station, and entailed the restoration and/or preservation of over 20,000 acres of degraded salt-marsh, the design and installation of numerous fish ladders, the evaluation of fish behavioral deterrents at power plant intakes, and baywide and in-plant finfish monitoring, among many other projects.
 
   Under this program, Mrs. And Mr. Shotzberger conducted fish population surveys, including data collection and report writing, and she interfaced with state and federal regulatory agencies to ensure environmental compliance while with ECSI. The Shotzbergers performed scientific measurements in the Delaware Bay, while supervising field crews. Mrs. Shotzberger was integral to the quality assurance / quality control protocol at ECSI’s ichthyoplankton laboratory. She designed and constructed holding facilities for various fish species in order to collect experimental data on latent impingement survival and the efficacy of underwater behavioral deterrents to reduce impingement at power plant intakes. Mrs. Shotzberger also served as the primary post-9/11/01 security liaison for ECSI field activities at and near PSEG’s Salem Nuclear Generating Station.
 
   For several years, Mr. Shotzberger served as a senior scientist at the EEP as a seconded scientist. He managed the extensive monitoring of the success of salt marsh restoration, fishery resources in the estuary, and fish ladders associated with the program. He also supervised the design and construction of several fish ladders in Delaware and New Jersey. Mr. Shotzberger has worked on the implementation of several NJPDES Permit requirements, including the investigation of underwater sounds, lights, and air bubbles to deter fish from power plant intakes and the evaluation of potentially improving fish return systems. Mr. Shotzberger managed consultants and technical experts in the integration of Delaware Estuary biological data into PSEG’s 2006 NJPDES Permit Renewal Application.