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Proposed Tocks Island Dam by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers [1] A 1950s proposal to construct a dam near Tocks Island across the Delaware River was met with considerable controversy and protest. Tocks Island is located in the Delaware River a short distance north from the Delaware Water Gap.
Tocks Island Dam controversy This page was last edited on 12 April 2020, at 12:13 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
When the Corps of Engineers acquired the land by eminent domain in the mid-twentieth century for the creation of the proposed Tocks Island Dam project, it relocated the community further up the hill. Local objections to the dam and purchasing of land willingly or by eminent domain had delayed the project for years, but preparations ended for ...
Most of its land was purchased by the federal government during the late 1960s in order to build the proposed Tocks Island Dam along the river, and its population was reduced to only a handful of people. Grassroot environmental organizations and mass local opposition put a halt to these plans and the dam was never completed. [9]
The land was then purchased by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in preparation for the building of the controversial Tocks Island Dam project. [19] Geology
The Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area came about as a result of the failure of a controversial plan to build a dam on the Delaware River at Tocks Island, just north of the Delaware Water Gap to control water levels for flood control and hydroelectric power generation. The dam would have created a 37-mile (60 km) lake in the center of ...
The original photo is from Trump Jr.'s November 12, 2005 wedding. In the Photoshopped version, Ivanka has been removed and the Trump brothers have been edited to look much heavier.
Hendrick Island; J. Jegou's Island; P. Petty Island; R. Reedy Island; T. Tocks Island Dam controversy This page was last edited on 24 October 2016, at 03:47 ...