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Nov 21, 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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Nov 21, 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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Nov 21, 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 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 now-depleted upstate New York reservoirs. New York City ...
Rain and snow coming but not nearly enough to end Delaware …
Nov 20, 2024 · Though welcome rain and snow is in the forecast for the parched Delaware River basin, it will make only a tiny dent in the drought conditions that have persisted in the four-state watershed. The entire region is dealing with the driest two-month period on record (September-October), according to Ben ...
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Nov 6, 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…
The beneficiaries of removing mill dams in Delaware River …
Feb 19, 2024 · 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 Atlantic Ocean, up the Delaware River and into the Brandywine to spawn in the creek’s upstream headwaters in Pennsylvania.
DRBC hearing outlines dry conditions and possibility of calling a ...
Nov 20, 2024 · The Delaware River Basin Commission held a public hearing on Tuesday to gather comments about the abnormally dry conditions throughout the four-state watershed. It was hard on the heels of New York City’s announcement on Monday that it was suspending its long-planned work on the Delaware River ...
Streams in the Delaware River watershed face a variety of threats
Apr 20, 2022 · The river’s basin – made up of parts of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Delaware — is also a natural habitat for a variety of plants, wildlife and aquatic life, including more than 400 bird species and more than 100 species of fish.And as the world’s largest freshwater port, the basin is the generator of billions of dollars’ worth of economic activity.
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