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Assessing drought in the Delaware River Basin is complicated

1 month ago | njspotlightnews.org | Meg McGuire |Delaware Currents

This story was originally published by Delaware Currents, a news project dedicated to telling the story of the Delaware River. Sign up for their newsletter here. Delaware Currents and NJ Spotlight News are part of a collaborative of news organizations working together to provide comprehensive climate change coverage for New Jersey. That drought we experienced in the autumn? It’s not over yet, at least for much of the four-state watershed. New York returned to normal status on Jan. 1.
More than $17M in National Fish and Wildlife Foundation funding to benefit Delaware River watershed projects

Jan 9, 2025 | delawarecurrents.org | Delaware Currents

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a round of funding amounting to more than $17 million for 45 new or continuing conservation and restoration grants for Delaware Watershed Conservation Fund projects The Delaware Watershed Conservation Fund supports projects that conserve and restore natural areas, corridors and waterways on public and private lands to support native migratory and resident wildlife and fish, and native plants and to...
Delaware’s ambitious Edgemoor port proposal loses permits

Nov 6, 2024 | delawarecurrents.org | Delaware Currents

This article originally appeared on Spotlight Delaware. It is republished with permission. By Karl BakerDelaware officials suffered a key setback in their quest to massively expand the Port of Wilmington, after a judge in Philadelphia invalidated federal approvals that would have allowed them to construct a new container terminal in Edgemoor.
Snakeheads in the Big Eddy (and everywhere else, it seems)

Oct 6, 2024 | delawarecurrents.org | Delaware Currents

Note: This article originally appeared in The River Reporter on Sept. 9, 2024, and is republished with permission. NARROWSBURG, NY — “It’s confirmed; snakeheads invade the Upper Delaware River in force,” Louie Gocek of Peckville, Pa., told The River Reporter. He and his friend Randy Konitsky “landed two, and saw several other snakeheads while spearfishing” in Narrowsburg’s Big Eddy on Sept. 4.
Water storage in Delaware River Basin to be examined

Sep 26, 2024 | njspotlightnews.org | Meg McGuire |Delaware Currents

The scientists, engineers and planners at the Delaware River Basin Commission work on all sorts of projects, almost invisibly, and then they suddenly appear, usually in the form of a resolution presented to the commissioners to take the next step in a project. So it was that on Sept. 5, when a resolution about water storage in the basin was approved.
Chester LNG plant viewed as dead after Biden directive, opponents say

Feb 1, 2024 | delawarecurrents.org | Chris Mele |Cloey Callahan |Andrew Lewis |Delaware Currents

Opponents of a plan to site a liquified natural gas plant in Chester, Pa., applauded a White House directive that they say could permanently derail a project that would exacerbate harmful health conditions in an environmental justice community already overburdened by pollution-spewing plants and facilities.
The quest to get the Lackawaxen federally designated as a Wild and Scenic River

Jan 29, 2024 | delawarecurrents.org | Cloey Callahan |Andrew Lewis |Delaware Currents |Octavia Feliciano

If supporters of the Lackawaxen River, a jewel of the Upper Delaware River watershed, get their way, the river will join 226 others in the country in gaining a special congressionally designated recognition. Activists hope to get the Lackawaxen, which is in Wayne and Pike Counties in Pennsylvania, named as a Wild and Scenic River.
A Flight Along the Delaware River: Our History, Our Watershed

Jan 23, 2024 | delawarecurrents.org | Delaware Currents |Octavia Feliciano |Meg McGuire |Hugh Morley

We are better custodians of the river when we understand the river. All voices are welcome to this conversation.
New Jersey warehouses bloom in the Delaware River Watershed

May 9, 2023 | njspotlightnews.org | Chris Mele |Delaware Currents

Efforts to find a single authoritative source that inventoried proposed warehouses in the Delaware River Watershed in New Jersey proved impossible and for good reason: Not one agency or organization alone tracks them all. Instead, the information is scattershot across a patchwork of jurisdictions and review authorities.