Breaking news: Since the time of publication of this story, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration confirmed that it has, in fact, received a renewal application for the special permit to allow the transportation of LNG by rail for the Wyalusing-to-Gibbstown project. The application was received on Tuesday, the day the permit was set…

Behemoth buildings that once housed power plants and supplied electricity to Philadelphia dot the Delaware — remains from more than a century ago — that remind us of the history and development of the region. Many of these former generating stations, some of which were built in the early 1900s and the 1910s by the…

You might have heard the whoop of joy from environmentalists all over the Delaware River watershed on Monday, Sept. 27, as the news seeped out that the PennEast Pipeline was abandoning its seven-year battle to ship fracked Marcellus Shale gas from Pennsylvania across the Delaware River to New Jersey. Perhaps the loudest cheers came from…

The change from summer to fall is empowering for some and depressing for others as we face snow, ice and shorter, darker days ahead. But this seasonal transition is nonetheless beautiful and impressive and is on full display in the Delaware Water Gap on the drive to, and hike up, Mount Tammany in Knowlton Township…

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Editor’s note: All over the watershed, water engineers are evaluating dams and how they affect the flow of water. Sometimes local people are fond of the way it is now (as it was for the Columbia Dam on the Paulins Kill.) Other times there’s some confusion about the benefit because at first the “before” looks a…

The Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership honored its watershed heroes for the 10th year at its Annual Watershed Milestones Ceremony, recognizing individuals and organizations that have supported clean water efforts in the watershed community. Honorees include outstanding volunteers, a local educator and corporate and nonprofit stewards who have made an impact in the watershed. They joined a community of more than…

Kolesar is Professor Emeritus at Columbia University and Special Research Scholar in the Water Center of Columbia’s Earth Institute, but better known in the Upper Delaware River for his work on the water released from New York City’s reservoirs, and the effects of this on the upper river ecosystem, especially on cold-water-loving trout. “The Lee…

Over the mountain, round river bends and down gravel roads, camping and kayaking, safety sessions and natural history lessons — it’s all part of the eight-day Delaware River Sojourn. The 26th annual sojourn was held August 6-14 and began in Hancock, N.Y. The Delaware Sojourn is a seven- to eight-day kayaking/canoeing “staycation” trip down the…

Rosemary Fuller of Delaware County, Pa., never had a problem with the well water at her house until construction began on a pipeline known as Mariner East 2, which would send natural gas liquids across Pennsylvania to an industrial complex on the Delaware River. A land agent, acting on behalf of the pipeline builder, Sunoco, had…