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More than $17M in National Fish and Wildlife Foundation funding to benefit Delaware River watershed projects

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a round of funding amounting to more than $17 million for 45 new or continuing conservation and restoration ...
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$50 million federal grant boosts Port Wilmington expansion project

The much-discussed-and-delayed plan to expand Port Wilmington by turning the former Edgemoor titanium dioxide manufacturing site into a new, modern container terminal on the Delaware River’s west bank ...
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Streams in the Delaware River watershed face a variety of threats

For Earth Day, Delaware Currents launches another one of its ambitious projects. This story kicks off a 10-part series to help you understand the health of the nine basins in Pennsylvania that are ...
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A passion project details World War II defenses of the Delaware Bay

Author Terrance McGovern grew up in California visiting West Coast ghost towns with his father, who was a history buff. When the McGovern family moved to Connecticut, where ghost towns are few, ...
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The beneficiaries of removing mill dams in Delaware River watershed? ‘Fish, fish, fish’

On a spring day more than 300 years ago, the people of the Lenape tribe gathered in their homeland along the Brandywine Creek in Delaware. Hundreds of fish had just begun to make their way from the ...
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Tookany/Tacony-Frankford: Water connects us

The Tookany/Tacony-Frankford waterways are a big name for what is really a rather small stream or two, or three, or more. Actually, much more. They are tucked in tight, mostly to the northeast and ...
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Where does your drinking water come from, Hemlock Farms?

Full disclosure, I live in Hemlock Farms, so I have a vested interest in finding out about my water! Delaware Currents has done a number of stories about the various projects that take water from the ...
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Two Delaware Bay communities positioned to get federal investment

More than a dozen partners have put their collective shoulders to the wheel to allow two Delaware communities to fight above their weight class to address encroaching development and the relentless ...
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Rival Delaware River ports go to court over Port Wilmington expansion

The operators of the main container terminal at the Port of Philadelphia and two other cargo terminals on the Delaware River have sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reverse the agency’s approval ...
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Summer flooding in Delaware River Basin to increase in size and frequency, study finds

Summer flooding in the Delaware River Basin is expected to increase in both size and frequency as the climate continues warming, intensifying future floods along the Delaware River’s mainstem, a study ...
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Four experts weigh in about possible White House impacts on the Delaware River watershed

Editor’s note: We sent a three-question survey to 20 experts in the watershed for their insights in light of the current moves by the Trump administration and how those actions might affect the ...
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Invasive fish in Delaware River pose growing threat, officials warn

Officials warn that several species of invasive fish have appeared in growing numbers in the Lower Delaware River basin, posing a threat to native fish and harming the environment. Freshwater Drums, ...