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Managing microplastics across the watershed: How water providers are responding to another ‘emerging’ contaminant

Microplastics are an unregulated contaminant but Delaware River watershed utilities and researchers are exploring ways to ...
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Shad in the Delaware face a problematic future

An assessment for the future population of Delaware River shad is not rosy, as the fish faces numerous threats, experts said.
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Streams in the Delaware River watershed face a variety of threats

For Earth Day, Delaware Currents launches another one of its ambitious projects. This story kicks off a 10-part series to help you understand the health of the nine basins in Pennsylvania that are ...
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Concerns about water and power demands surface as data centers boom in Delaware River watershed

Most Pennsylvanians probably couldn’t point out Tobyhanna Township on a map. But parents of young children likely know Kalahari resorts, a popular indoor waterpark that draws visitors to this rural ...
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Warren County backs effort to name Paulins Kill a National Wild and Scenic River

An ongoing initiative to recognize the Paulins Kill, a 41-mile tributary of the Delaware River, as a National Wild and Scenic River gained the support of Warren County, N.J., which is home to a ...
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Four experts weigh in about possible White House impacts on the Delaware River watershed

Editor’s note: We sent a three-question survey to 20 experts in the watershed for their insights in light of the current moves by the Trump administration and how those actions might affect the ...
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Chemicals trouble Delaware River tributaries

We have our work cut out for us. A recent report from the scientists at the Delaware River Basin Commission indicates there is a significant presence of toxic chemicals in the tributaries that feed ...
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Tookany/Tacony-Frankford: Water connects us

The Tookany/Tacony-Frankford waterways are a big name for what is really a rather small stream or two, or three, or more. Actually, much more. They are tucked in tight, mostly to the northeast and ...
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The beneficiaries of removing mill dams in Delaware River watershed? ‘Fish, fish, fish’

On a spring day more than 300 years ago, the people of the Lenape tribe gathered in their homeland along the Brandywine Creek in Delaware. Hundreds of fish had just begun to make their way from the ...
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University of Delaware gets EPA grant to study effects of road salt on freshwater wetlands

Road salt, while good when roads are icy, can be bad for water systems and the critters that inhabit them. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has given $319,382 to the University of Delaware to ...
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Fish versus electricity: Could the Salem nuclear plant be shut down?

This story was produced by Spotlight Delaware, a community-powered, collaborative, nonprofit newsroom covering the First State. Learn more at spotlightdelaware.org A judge in an obscure administrative ...