Camp FIMFO plan divides Park Service and Upper Delaware Council
Until last year, the National Park Service and the Upper Delaware Council had never disagreed on determinations about whether a...
Batten down the hatches!
Wherever you live in our watershed, flooding is increasing, from Bristol, Pa., to Dover, Del., from Delaware County in New...
Effort to create Delaware River National Park grinds on
Since steps were first announced in 2021 to create a national park straddling the Delaware River in New Jersey and...
USS New Jersey to travel the Delaware River in 2024, headed for repairs
The nation’s most decorated battleship and a beloved tourist attraction, the USS New Jersey, is expected to be towed along the...
EPA seeks to improve dissolved oxygen levels and water quality in urban stretch of Delaware River
All in all, it was a good week for the Delaware River. Two significant developments point toward possible improvements in...
$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...
Editorial: National Park Service budget cuts are shortsighted and counterproductive
In September, my husband and I went on a road trip to visit our older son in Columbia, Mo. Our...
Sewage is overflowing into Philly’s rivers. Is the city’s $2B+ fix working?
Editor’s note: Delaware Currents, in partnership with Grid magazine and Chestnut Hill Local, spent several months examining Green City, Clean...
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...
Polluted streams continue to plague Delaware River watershed in Pennsylvania
The quality of water in the Pennsylvania sub-basins that make up the Delaware River watershed deteriorated only slightly from an...
‘Proforestation’ can help manage carbon storage
Environmental groups in New Jersey are turning to proforestation as a way to decrease harmful carbon emissions and blunt the...
Harmful ‘forever chemicals’ more prevalent in lower urbanized areas of Delaware River, report finds
A class of “forever chemicals” known as PFAS that have been identified as a health hazard are more commonly found...
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