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Reporter’s notebook: Behind the scenes as the SS United States departs
The effort to move the SS United States from its longtime berth in Philadelphia to Florida has been like watching...
Delaware River named Pennsylvania’s 2025 river of the year
The Delaware River has been named Pennsylvania’s 2025 River of the Year after securing the most votes in a public competition, the Department of Conservation...
Meeting tomorrow about Skinners Falls Bridge amid efforts to save it
Amid plans to demolish the Skinners Falls Bridge and a last-ditch effort by community activists to save it, a meeting...
Departure of the SS United States from Philadelphia is scuttled again
UPDATE: Plans to move the SS United States from Philadelphia to Mobile, Ala., have been delayed because of follow-up details...
Fitzpatrick and Sherrill to co-lead the bipartisan Delaware River Watershed Caucus
Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey will serve as co-chairs of the Congressional Delaware Watershed...
State warns of looming ‘systemic failure’ of Trenton’s water utility
This article originally appeared in New Jersey Monitor. In the summer of 1975, Trenton’s public water utility experienced so many...
‘Obstructionist’: Tensions flare over U.S. Coast Guard’s handling of SS United States
It was not just stormy weather that delayed the planned departure of the SS United States from its Philadelphia pier...
More than $17M in National Fish and Wildlife Foundation funding to benefit Delaware River watershed projects
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a round of funding amounting to...
Aging equipment plagues the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
As sure as Christmas follows Thanksgiving, every year the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area announces its winter closings and...
Skinners Falls Bridge is “actively failing” and needs to be demolished, potentially with explosives, officials say
The Skinners Falls Bridge appears destined for an explosive ending akin to finale of the 1957 movie “The Bridge on...
New DRBC head promises a steady hand on the tiller
Kristen Bowman Kavanagh is the new executive director of the Delaware River Basin Commission. So new, in fact, that her...
Coast Guard says SS United States may be too unstable to move
The U.S. Coast Guard has found that the SS United States, the decommissioned but celebrated ocean liner, may not be...
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