The watershed management area includes watersheds draining the Cape May portion of New Jersey. The region includes Cape May County south and east of the Tuckahoe River watershed. The region contains minimal surface water flow. Ground water and shellfish harvesting water quality are the principal water issues. No fixed physical/chemical fresh (surface) water monitoring locations are currently located within this management area. The area includes the following watersheds: Dennis Creek, Delaware Bay Coastal Drainage, and Cape May Atlantic Coastal Drainage.

Cape May County is located at the southern-most point of New Jersey and represents a continuation of the Atlantic Coastal Plain. The county is 267 square miles in area and is bounded on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and on the west and south by the Delaware Bay. The region represents a low lying, gently rolling plain whose highest point is 54 feet above sea level and whose surface is largely covered by wet soils and wetlands. Large swamps (Great Cedar, Timber and Beaver Swamps) occupy the north-central part of the county. Most, if not all, streams are tidal in their lower reaches and terminate by flowing into fresh water swamps that, in turn, discharge into saltwater marshes near the shore.

One of the principal water resource issues within this management area is drinking water supply. Nontidal surface water quality assessments in this region are limited to in-stream macroinvertebrate assessments on streams in the northwestern part of the county and the western drainage of the peninsula. Most monitoring locations were assessed as severely impaired.