Kelly is the Director of the Philadelphia Water Department’s Office of Watersheds. PWD has extensive water resources planning programs that focus on using sound, actionable science and technical tools to actively manage, monitor and coordinate the necessary programs that best protect the Schuylkill and Delaware Rivers, the sources of the City of Philadelphia’s drinking water supply. Kelly’s responsibilities include overseeing wet weather compliance, water resources monitoring and data analysis, climate change adaptation planning, source water protection and basin scale planning, water resources modeling, aquatic restoration, and many other aspects of water resources management.
Kelly started with PWD in 2005, after graduating from Drexel University with degrees in Environmental Science and Environmental Policy.
