People and Places
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...
SS United States has no departure date on the horizon: Here’s what we know
It’s anything but smooth sailing for the SS United States, the celebrated former ocean liner that is set to be...
Underwater exploration of Upper Delaware yields hidden history
An underwater exploration of the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River revealed at least two sunken relics from bygone days:...
Divers explore nearly 50-year-old train wreck in the Delaware River
You might not think scuba diving a train wreck in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area would be possible,...
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