Posts by Meg McGuire
Celebrating with Water Resources Association of the Delaware River Basin
A story re-told in Tweets from the evening
Draft of DRBC’s plan to clean the Delaware is finally here
As with so many documents from the Delaware River Basin Commission, the title of the Draft Attainability Report released on Friday does not give any indication of what this could mean for the Delaware River. Its official title is: Aquatic Life Designated Use Analysis of Attainability Report. It is a review of how we can…
Read MoreAccurate Reporting Takes Time and Persistence
Editor’s note: This is a free newsletter that was sent to subscribers. To sign up for the newsletters, email us. Dear reader, We’re going to be sending out a newsletter once a week, with any luck, and we’re planning it for Thursdays. Today, I’ve asked my stalwart freelancer (and husband) to give you a little behind-the-…
Read MoreWhat I discovered snorkeling in the Delaware
Editor’s note: This is a free newsletter that was sent to subscribers this month. To sign up for the newsletters, email us. I know, I know, I know. How crazy is it that I’ve been hip-deep (and deeper) in all things Delaware River for the past seven years and I’ve never been IN the Delaware? On…
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34th Annual Upper Delaware River Awards
A story told in Tweets!
Looking for healthy bugs
DRBC’s biomonitoring team investigates the Upper Delaware
The Upper Delaware was looking every inch “special” recently when a team from the Delaware River Basin Commission investigated its waters not far from the Roebling Bridge. Biological monitoring is conducted every two years — when possible — to determine if anything has changed. All 197 miles of the Delaware River from Hancock, N.Y., to…
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It’s been a minute…
Catching up from a busy summer
Editor’s note: This is a free newsletter that was sent to subscribers this month. To sign up for the newsletters, email us Geez, Labor Day has come and gone! Hope your summers were great. I had some fun stuff and then COVID. Luckily, with vaccinations and boosters, it wasn’t horrible but it does have some…
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Turning kids into eager anglers for trout
FUDR Bill Canfield Fly Fishing School
The first sounds you hear as you get close to this idyllic spot on the famed Beaverkill River is hooting and hollering. “Somebody must have caught a fish,” Pete Grimbilas, the volunteer coordinator of the Friends of the Upper Delaware/ Bill Canfield Fly Fishing School, says with a grin. Not just any fish — students…
Read MoreWhere does your drinking water come from, Hemlock Farms?
Full disclosure, I live in Hemlock Farms, so I have a vested interest in finding out about my water! Delaware Currents has done a number of stories about the various projects that take water from the watershed, but I’ve never done one on my “home turf.” Mainly because it’s relatively small and its impact on…
Read MoreReporter’s notebook: What goes on at a DRBC meeting
“So, what is the DRBC all about?” Delaware Gov. John Carney asked in his welcoming address to this, the first in-person meeting of the Delaware River Basin Commission in more than two years, which happened at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del., on June 8. He was recalling his first contact with the DRBC back…
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