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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 ...
Parts of Philadelphia International Airport and neighborhoods to the north are within two or three feet above the average high tide on the Delaware River. In downtown Philadelphia, Penn's Landing and the Northeast Corridor railroad tracks at 30th Street Station are currently in the 100-year floodplain.
Darby Creek (historically known as Church Creek or the Derby River) is a tributary of the Delaware River in Chester, Delaware and Philadelphia counties, in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is approximately 26 miles (42 km) long. [2] The watershed of the creek has an area of 77.2 square miles (200 km 2).
Shelves stand empty of bottle water following a chemical spill into the Delaware River upstream from Philadelphia, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Health officials in Bucks County, just north of ...
Weather. 24/7 Help. ... the Philadelphia Water Department said tap water would be safe to drink through at least the end of the day Monday. ... a tributary to the Delaware River, NBC Philadelphia ...
The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for Bucks County and the Delaware Valley on Wednesday, April 3. The water levels of the Delaware River at Trenton stood at 12.34 feet as of ...
Philadelphia Water began this program in 1999 when the Office of Watersheds was created. The Delaware and Schuylkill rivers each make up about half of the Philadelphia area's drinking water supply, and Philadelphia Water delivers about 250 million gallons of this drinking water to customers on a daily basis through its treatment plants.