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In order to control damaging flooding and provide clean water to supply New York City and Philadelphia, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed building a dam. When completed, the Tocks Island Dam would have created a 37-mile (60-km) long lake between Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with depths of up to 140 feet. This lake and the land ...
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 reservoir emptying through the failed Teton Dam on June 5, 1976 Ruins of the dam of Vega de Tera (Spain) after breaking in 1959. A dam failure or dam burst is a catastrophic type of structural failure characterized by the sudden, rapid, and uncontrolled release of impounded water or the likelihood of such an uncontrolled release. [1]
Author and retired journalist David Pierce will discuss the Tocks Island Dam saga on Jan. 21 at The Columns Museum in Milford.
The partial failure of Minnesota’s Rapidan Dam sheds like on the almost 4,100 dams in the U.S. that are categorized at the same risk level and condition – or worse.
Five PL-566 dams in Vernon, La Crosse and Monroe counties failed during an intense 2018 storm. Now officials weigh whether 23 similar dams need to go.
Delaware River watershed. The purpose of the Commission is to bring the Delaware River under collective and balanced control, and to ensure fair usage by the states. To this end, the Commission conducts programs related to water quality protection, water supply allocation and water conservation, regulatory review and permitting, watershed planning, drought management, flood mitigation and loss ...
The federal government is ignoring the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s decades of research and analysis showing that the impacts of clean, renewable hydropower from federal ...