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A news magazine about the Delaware River and the people who use it.

Posts by Jane Primerano

Dam removal leads to rebirth of the Paulins Kill

By Jane Primerano | March 23, 2021

Once upon a time, dams were essential for “powering” a community, even though they interfered with the natural working of rivers. The Columbia Dam on the Paulins Kill in N.J. was taken down last year and the river is adjusting nicely!

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Where Are You in the Watershed?

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Welcome to Delaware Currents, the news magazine for the whole watershed. The Delaware River supplies drinking water for 15 million people, including New York City, Trenton, Philadelphia, Camden and Wilmington. The immense watershed for the Delaware stretches into the Catskills, up the Lehigh and the Schuykill, up the Rancocas to the Pinelands and across the marshes of Delaware. There are floods and droughts, and arguments aplenty about water quality, fracking, pipelines, dredging, endangered species and on and on.

Welcome to Delaware Currents, the news magazine for the whole watershed. The Delaware River supplies drinking water for 15 million people, including New York City, Trenton, Philadelphia, Camden and Wilmington. The immense watershed for the Delaware stretches into the Catskills, up the Lehigh and the Schuykill, up the Rancocas to the Pinelands and across the marshes of Delaware. There are floods and droughts, and arguments aplenty about water quality, fracking, pipelines, dredging, endangered species and on and on. Delaware Currents hopes to encourage thoughtful discussion about how we take care of the river and the people who use it, even if we don't always agree.

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A full deck at the Delaware RIver Basin Commission’s Sept.11 meeting. From left (Bryan Ashby (Delaware); Kenneth Kosinski (New York); Steve Tambini, ED DRBC; LTC David Park (USACE); Aneca Atkinson (Pennsylvania); Jeffrey Hoffman (New Jersey) Not pictured Pamela Bush, Secretary and Asst Gen. Counsel; Kenneth Warren, Gen Counsel
Another day, another DRBC advisory committee meeting - this one is Water Mngmt Advisory Committee. All are open to the public. #delawareriver @delrivcoalition
Meeting of the Subcommittee on Ecological Flow at the DRBC trying to ascertain what’s the best flow to keep the upriver critters healthy. #delawareriver
Another day, another advisory committee at the DRBC. This one is all about the toxics that grab headlines like the PFAs and the growing concern about micro plastics. #delawareriver @delrivcoalition
Not a great picture but great ambition for a better river: the agenda of (alphabet soup) STAC/MACC meeting RIGHT NOW at the DRBC offices in Trenton, NJ
The Blue Ridge Mountains are another way that nature reveals herself in all her glory.
Penn State’s #THON is about to start- dancers stand in 6 minutes and won’t sit down until 6 p.m. Sunday #Forthekids
Delaware River Basin Commission meeting in Wasingtons Crossing, Pa.
Fall tiptoes into Pike County.
The very full Delaware River from the Lordville Bridge, looking toward New York.
These are the pro-fracking ban folks gathered outside the Delaware River Basin Commission. About 25 people spoke against fracking and pipelines at todays meeting.
Here are the deciders on whether the Delaware River Basin will ban fracking in the Basin. These are the representatives of the 4 states and the federal government - the Delaware River Badin Commission meeting today in Trenton

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