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The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) is a United States government agency created in 1961 by an interstate compact, signed into law by President John F. Kennedy, between four states (Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York).
The decision on the future of the project lay with the Delaware River Basin Commission, the governing board of which included the governors of the four states in the Delaware River Basin (New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware) and a federal representative who reported to the U. S. Secretary of the Interior. The project's momentum was ...
The Delaware River Basin Commission, along with local governments, is working to try to address the issue of flooding along the river. As the past few years have seen a rise in catastrophic floods, most residents of the river basin feel that something must be done.
Mar. 1—A decision last week by the Delaware River Basin Commission would ban fracking through the Delaware River watershed, including Berks County. There had been a temporary moratorium ...
The Delaware River Basin Commission hydrology report shows a sharp escalation of river flows in mid-December, caused by heavy rain. As measured at the Montague gauge, near Milford, PA, the flow ...
Colorado River Compact (Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, Arizona, and California) [16] Columbia River Gorge Commission (Oregon and Washington) Connecticut River Valley Flood Control Commission (Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont) [17] Delaware River Basin Commission (Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and New ...
The Delaware River looking north above Walpack Bend near Walpack, New Jersey, where the river leaves the historic Minisink region, a buried valley eroded from the Marcellus Formation The watershed of the Delaware River drains an area of 14,119 square miles (36,570 km 2 ) and encompasses 42 counties and 838 municipalities in five U.S. states ...
The earthen Merrill Creek Dam (National ID # NJ00864), with a height of 280 feet (85 m) and a length at its crest of 1,140 feet (350 m), was built in 1988 [2] by a consortium of seven electric utilities, under the mandate of the Delaware River Basin Commission. It replaces the river water lost through evaporation in the cooling of 14 power plants.