Pieces of the complex plan have so far gained approvals from at least 19 different local, state and federal government bodies but the project has drawn intense opposition from critics over safety, environmental and other concerns, including the risk of running so-called “bomb trains” carrying LNG through heavily populated communities. | Delaware Currents
In the normal functioning of our older wastewater treatment systems (like Philly, Camden and Chester,) the “one pipe” conveyance systems were built to allow the rush of a heavy rainfall to bring that rainwater as well as wastewater out of the urban area and into the river and not to let it back up in people’s basements. A good thing, right? | Delaware Currents
WURD Radio’s ecoWURD initiative will host a series of monthly on-air/online/video conversations exploring the intersection of environmental justice, COVID-19 and the impact on Black and Brown communities. | Delaware Currents
Borough residents and area environmental groups are hoping to stop a proposal for housing that includes a very large sewer-service area they fear will overheat and possibly pollute the Musconetcong River, one of the major tributaries of the Delaware River in New Jersey. | Delaware Currents
It’s part of an effort to allow shad, eels and other fish to return to their ancestral spawning grounds again for the first time in two centuries. | Delaware Public Media
On Thursday, Jan. 9, there will be a public meeting — really more of a brainstorming session –on a reevaluation study of the F.E. Walter Dam on the Lehigh River in Luzerne County in northeast Pennsylvania. | Delaware Currents
Our expectations for the river have moved from those simple judgments of rubbish, stink and death and toward a more sustainable view of the river as it affects our quality of life and its uses for tourism. | Delaware Currents
The Delaware River Basin Commission plans to create a Climate Change Advisory Committee to intensify and unify the study of impacts of climate change on the Delaware River Basin. | Delaware Currents
It’s likely that those plants in the lower river and bay are a significant source of the dip in dissolved oxygen. | Delaware Currents
The river’s story is much more than whether it’s clean or dirty. Our water needs to be far more than clean. A healthy river is a dynamic ecosystem that provides, of course, the drinking water that we depend on, but also, a healthy habitat for all the river’s critters that depend on it as well. | Delaware Currents