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Dec 23, 2024 · Delaware Currents is a nonprofit, online news magazine dedicated to the Delaware River and sparking an informed conversation about its future.
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Dec 23, 2024 · Delaware Currents is a news project dedicated to telling the story of the Delaware River from its headwaters in the Catskill Mountains of New York to the Delaware Bay, where it meets the ocean. Delaware Currents seeks to host an intelligent conversation about the river's future, understanding that there is a natural tug-of-war among its stakeholders and that no one person, organization or ...
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Dec 30, 2024 · Full steam ahead for the Delaware Aqueduct shutdownThe public is invited to three New York City DEP presentations on its repair plans for the fall. By Meg McGuire | March 16, 2023 The temporary shutdown of the Delaware Aqueduct that was postponed last year is scheduled to happen on Oct. 1, and… Read More Restoring…
Delaware River watershed drought: Good for the birds, the trout – …
Dec 23, 2024 · Dry conditions have prompted the posting of drought watches and warnings in many pockets of the Delaware River watershed, and the declaration of a “water supply emergency” by the Delaware River Basin Commission.. Though the river itself is not in a state of drought, fish and wildlife in the watershed are feeling the impacts of the prolonged lack of precipitation — in ways both positive ...
Underwater exploration of Upper Delaware yields hidden history
Dec 9, 2024 · An underwater exploration of the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River revealed at least two sunken relics from bygone days: the 19 th century remnants of a dam and bridge footings.. The findings are not exactly pirate’s booty or of legendary shipwrecks carrying gold bullion but they do spotlight pieces of history under the water’s surface in the Upper Delaware and were a good ...
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Dec 7, 2024 · Explore the Delaware Search Search Recent Stories How the town of Cannonsville became the Cannonsville Reservoir By Octavia Feliciano | February 3, 2024 Read More about How the town of Cannonsville became the Cannonsville Reservoir Chester LNG plant viewed as dead after Biden directive, opponents say By Chris Mele | February 1, 2024 Read More…
DRBC declares a water-supply emergency, not a drought
Dec 7, 2024 · Left: Raub's Island, south of Carpentersville, Pa., on the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. This is before the recent rains, taken on Nov. 6, 2024. Photo courtesy DRBC. Right: Raub's Island, south of Carpentersville, Pa., on the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. This is after the recent rains, taken on Nov. 30, 2024.
Delaware Aqueduct project on hold as drought complicates repairs
Nov 19, 2024 · The on-again-off-again-on-again long-awaited repairs to the leaking Delaware Aqueduct are off again – after having gotten started last month – because a prolonged lack of rain has meant that, during the project, the city has been drawing on …
Rain and snow coming but not nearly enough to end Delaware …
Nov 19, 2024 · Rain is in the forecast for the parched Delaware River basin but it will make only a tiny dent in the drought in the four-state watershed.
DRBC hearing outlines dry conditions and possibility of calling a ...
Dec 17, 2024 · The Delaware River Basin Commission held a public hearing to gather comments about the abnormally dry conditions in the four-state watershed.