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Flood	Habitat and Ecosystem Threat	Habitat and Ecosystem Threat, Habitat and Ecosystem Threat
Harmful Development	Health Threat	Illegal pollution discharges and/or dumping
Invasive Species	Oil Spill	Pollution Discharge
Power Plants	Regulation and Law	Sewage Dumping
Stormwater	Waste Dumping	Water Quality Threat
Water Diversions

Best Practices

Dam Removal

• (Fact Sheet) Background on Dam Removal and River Restoration

Floodplains And Buffers

• (Advocacy success) Riparian Corridor Created in Camen County

• (Fact Sheet) Vegetated Buffers, Open Space and Greenways

• (Fact Sheet) Riparian Buffers

• (Fact Sheet) Wide Riparian Zones Need to be Protected

Native Plants

• (Fact Sheet) Plant a native landscape

• (Fact Sheet) Annual Native Plant Sale

• (Fact Sheet) Natural Open Space

Stormwater

• (Current issues) NJ Stormwater Regs Upheld

• (Current issues) Upper Makefield Twp. Zoning Challenge

• (Fact Sheet) Rapid Infiltration & Overland Flow

• (Fact Sheet) "Green" yards protect streams

• (Press releases) NJ 300 Foot Buffer Rule Upheld by Highest State Court

Wastewater Treatment

• (Fact Sheet) Natural Wastewater Treatment: Spray Irrigation

• (Fact Sheet) Natural Wastewater Treatment Systems

Chemical Spill

Wissahickon Creek

• (Press releases) DRN Calls on Culprit to Confess and City to be Vigilant

• (Press releases) Merck Named as Culprit in Wissahickon Creek Fish Kill

• (Current issues) Toxic Chemical Spill followed by a 55,000 Gallon Sewage Spill

Dams, Levees and Flood Control Structures

Dam Removal

• (Advocacy success) Manatawny Dam Removed

Dark Hollow Dam

• (Fact Sheet) Background on Proposed Dark Hollow Dam

Felix Dam

• (Advocacy success) Felix Dam To Be Removed

Flood Control Dams

• (Fact Sheet) Dark Hollow Dam Debate: Alternative Solutions to Flooding

• (Advocacy success) Dark Hollow Dam Defeated

• (Advocacy success) Rock Run Dam Defeated

• (Advocacy success) Chubb Run Dam Defeated

• (Fact Sheet) About Dark Hollow Park

• (Fact Sheet) Rock Run Dam

• (Fact Sheet) Dark Hollow Dam Debate: Voluntary Buyouts -- A Permanent and Effective Solution

New York City Reservoirs

• (Press releases) Opinion Piece -- Bigger Dams Not Wanted or Needed on the Delaware

• (Comment) DRBC Flexible Flow Management Plan -- Management of NYC Reservoirs

• (Testimony) Delaware Riverkeeper's Testimony, Before the DRBC regarding NYC Reservoir Management Proposal

Restoring Free Flow Streams and Rivers

• (Advocacy success) Stopped Angelica Dam

Dredging

Delaware Deepening

• (Fact Sheet) Independent scientists challenge Corps' finding of "no significant impact" from dredge toxics in Delaware River sediments

• (Fact Sheet) Delaware Deepening An Economic Shell Game

• (Fact Sheet) Delaware Deepening Dredging Up Toxic Sediments

• (Fact Sheet) The Delaware River Main Channel Deepening Project: Background

• (Current issues) Dredging Would Contaminate Delaware River

• (Press releases) New Report - Delaware River Deepening Dumped Again

• (Press releases) Enviros to the Governors: Don't Deepen the Delaware River

• (Press releases) Corzine Dumps on the Delaware: Picks Pennsylvania Politics Over New Jersey Citizens and Environment

• (Press releases) Environmentalists On Hand For Deepening Announcement

• (Press releases) PA Politics Presents False Promises on the Deepening

• (Press releases) Documents Released Today Prove Corzine’s Deepening Deal Worthless -- New Jersey will be Dumped on Again

Palmyra Cove

• (Press releases) Bulldozers rev-up to bury Palmyra Cove Nature Park

Endangered Species

Red Knot And Horseshoe Crabs

• (Litigation success) Red Knot rufa Candidate Species for Endangered Species Protection

• (Advocacy success) Horseshoe Crab Moratorium In NJ

• (Comment) DE Regulations to Protect Horseshoe Crabs

• (Testimony) Delaware Riverkeeper Testifies to Protect Horseshoe Crabs and Save Red Knot from Extinction

• (Press releases) Delaware Bay Bird Close to Extinction -- Organizations Fighting for its Protection

• (Press releases) Conservation Groups File Legal Action to Protect Red Knot Shorebird

• (Press releases) Delaware Announces Decision to Protect Horseshoe Crabs and Birds of Delaware Bay

• (Press releases) Conservationists Seek Re-instatement of Delaware Crabbing Moratorium

• (Press releases) New Report Shows Red Knot Faces Extinction

• (Press releases) NJ Marine Fisheries Council Rejects Science; Sets Red Knot on Path to Extinction

• (Press releases) A Victory for Horseshoe Crabs and Shorebirds along New Jersey shores

• (Urgent action) A Victory for Horseshoe Crabs and Shorebirds in New Jersey

Factory Farming

• (Litigation success) Garden State Growers Horticultural Factory Farm Fined

Garden State Growers

• (Urgent action) Stop Preserved Farm from Destroying its Resources

Hudson Valley Foie Gras

• (Press releases) Lawsuit Challenges Factory Farm Secrecy

Flood

2006 Flood

• (Press releases) DRN Statement: Flood of 2006

Habitat and Ecosystem Threat

Floodplains And Buffers

• (Current issues) Swamp Road Improvement Project

NY Power Lines

• (Fact Sheet) Power Lines Proposed to Travel Along the Wild and Scenic Delaware River

• (Current issues) Power Lines Proposed to Travel Along the Wild and Scenic Delaware River

Habitat and Ecosystem Threat, Habitat and Ecosystem Threat

2006 Flood, Water Quality

• (Current issues) Help Protect Native Brook Trout in PA

Harmful Development

• (Advocacy success) Hopewell Township Protected from Sewer Extention and Massive Development

• (Advocacy success) Mercer County Incinerator Rejected

• (Litigation success) Route 202 Highway Bypass Prevented

Artificial Turf

• (Letter) Artificial Turf vs. Natural Grass at Radnor Middle School -- Letter to School Board

• (Letter) Artificial Turf at the Middle School -- Commissioners Letter

• (Fact Sheet) Fact Sheet -- Artificial/Synthetic Turf

• (Advocacy success) Defeated Artificial Turf at Radnor Middle School

Easton Parking Authority

• (Press releases) Delaware Riverkeeper Network Files for Injunction to Stop Floodplain Development

• (Press releases) Court Rules On Easton's Riverwalk Transportation Development Project

• (Testimony) Easton Riverwalk -- Testimony on Environmental Assessment

• (Press releases) Preliminary injunction hearing on Easton Riverwalk

Floodplain Development

• (Litigation success) Delaware Riverkeeper Network Challenges New Floodplain Development

• (Current litigation)

• (Advocacy success) Protected Pennsauken Creek from 308 Unit Development Project

• (Comment) Venice Island -- Stop Development in the Floodway

Incinerators

• (Fact Sheet) Incineration Threat to the Delaware River One Down; More to Come?

Ithan Creek

• (Press releases) Citizens Band Together to Challenge Development That Threatens Historic Community and Ithan Creek

• (Fact Sheet) O’Neill Properties Development - Conestoga Road and Route 320

Pettys Island

• (Current issues) Open Space Threatened

Petty's Island

• (Press releases) NJDEP terminates agreement with Pennsauken and Cherokee

• (Press releases) Statement on Petty's Island

• (Press releases) Cherokee Redevelopment -- Pennsauken Waterfront Redevelopment Project

Rt 29

• (Fact Sheet) Rt. 29 Plan to Fill in Part of the Delaware River will Harm NJ and PA River Communities

Saba Tract

• (Fact Sheet) Save the Wetlands at the Maple Point Extension

Shallow Water Habitats

• (Advocacy success) Shallow Water Fish Habitat Saved from Trenton Wharf Reconstruction

Steep Slopes

• (Advocacy success) Stockton Bluffs Protected

Stormwater

• (Press releases) Court Upholds NJ's Buffer Rule -- DRN Claims Important Regional and National Precedent

Sugarhouse Casino

• (Comment) Sugarhouse Casino Letter re Sewage Disposal Plan

• (Letter) Sugarhouse Casino -- Stay out of our Riparian Lands

• (Comment) Sugarhouse Casino -- Letter Re Army Corps Permit

Upper Delaware

• (Fact Sheet) Timbering in the Upper Delaware

Wetlands

• (Litigation success) Wetlands Spared from Giant Supermarket

• (Advocacy success) 28 Acres Wetlands and Woodlands (Saba Tract) Protected from Development

Woodlands/Forests

• (Advocacy success) Saddler's Woods (McArthur Woods) Protected and Restored

• (Advocacy success) Levin Tract Woods and Wetlands Protected from Detention Basin Development

Health Threat

Black Fly Spraying

• (Fact Sheet) Riverview: Bti, Black Fly and the Delaware River Experiment

Fish Advisories

• (Fact Sheet) Mercury in Freshwater Fish

Illegal pollution discharges and/or dumping

Garden State Growers

• (Letter) Destructive Horticultural Practices -- Garden State Growers

PA DOT

• (Letter) Illegal dumping by PADOT

Invasive Species

• (Advocacy success) Invasive Pacific Salmonids Kept Out of Delaware River

Oil Spill

Christina River

• (Current issues) Five-mile oil slick injures Christina River near Wilmington Delaware

Delaware Bay

• (Press releases) Update: Oil Slick in the Upper Delaware Bay April 25, 2006

• (Press releases) Update:Oil Slick in the Upper Delaware Bay May 1, 2006

• (Press releases) Update: Oil Slick in the Upper Delaware Bay April 28, 2006

• (Press releases) Oil Slick in the Upper Delaware Bay

Pollution Discharge

• (Comment) Brookshire Developed -- Proposed Pollution Discharge to Perkiomen Creek

• (Comment) Valero pollution discharges -- don't let air pollution become water pollution

PPL Power Plant

• (Press releases) Emergency Coal Waste Basin at Martin's Creek Plant Springs a Leak; Coal Fired Units Shut Down

• (Press releases) DRN files Petition with USEPA Concerning Coal Fly Ash Basin Failures

• (Press releases) Pollution from Ash Pit Moves Downstream and Downwind

• (Press releases) USEPA Reconsiders DRN's Petition for Control over PPL

• (Press releases) PPL Ash Pit Blows Out into Delaware River; Pollution Event Continues During Clean Up

• (Press releases) Storm Flows in Delaware River Spread Pollution From PPL Ash Pit

• (Press releases) USEPA Grants DRN Petition Concerning PPL Martin's Creek Plant

• (Press releases) PPL Power Plant Ash Pit Blows Out Into Delaware River

• (Press releases) PADEP Grant Permit; PPL Reopens Basin and Coal Fueled Units at Martin's Creek Plant

Power Plants

• (Advocacy success) Banks of the Delaware Protected from New Powerplant

• (Comment) Indian River Generating Station -- Enforce 316(b) -- Stop the Fish Kills

Oyster Creek

• (Comment) Oyster Creek -- Stop the Fish Kills

Salem Nuclear Generating Station

• (Fact Sheet) Report on NJPDES Special Conditions

• (Fact Sheet) Salem Nuclear Generation Station's License to Kill

• (Fact Sheet) Killing both marsh and fish

• (Fact Sheet) Largest Predator in the Delaware Estuary

• (Fact Sheet) Killing both marsh and fish

• (Letter) Letter to Commissioner Jackson -- Calling for Cooling Towers at Salem

• (Press releases) Court Strikes Down EPA Regulations Regarding Cooling Water Fish Kills

• (Current issues) Largest Predator in the Delaware Estuary

Regulation and Law

• (Current issues) Support Extra Protections for the Upper Perkiomen

• (Litigation success) Court Strikes Down EPA Regulations Regarding Cooling Water Fish Kills

Floodplains And Buffers

• (Current issues) Springfield Twp., Bucks County

Special Protection Waters

• (Fact Sheet) Special Protection Waters Designation for the Lower Delaware River

• (Letter) Letter to DRBC -- Supporting Special Protection Waters Designation for the Lower Delaware

• (Advocacy success) Special Protection Waters Designation for the Lower Delaware

• (Advocacy success) Special Protection Waters Designation for the Upper and Middle Delaware

• (Urgent action) Special Protection Waters Designation Needed for the Lower Delaware River

TMDLs

• (Fact Sheet) Enforcing the Clean Water Act: TMDLs and Water Quality Limited Segments

Water Quality

• (Litigation success) Pozsgai's Ordered to Restore Illegally Filled Wetlands.

• (Current litigation) Delaware Riverkeeper Network & Delaware Riverkeeper et. al. v. NY State Department of Environmental Conservation: The Delaware Riverkeeper Network, The Humane Society of the United States, the Delaware Riverkeeper, and American Littoral Society filed suit in the New York Supreme Court challenging the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's concealment of the terms of water pollution permits issued to Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). The suit asks the court to order NYSDEC to release the records publicly.

CAFOs are large scale "factory farm" facilities that raise animals for meat, eggs, and dairy. The animals, who are often so intensively confined they can barely move, produce massive amounts of manure and have degraded water quality in lakes and streams across the country. At least two intensive confinement facilities, both undergoing expansion, are located in the Delaware River Watershed on the Middle Mongaup River. One of them, Hudson Valley Foie Gras has a history of violations of its discharge permits, spilling manure and releasing bacteria and chlorine into the river. This lawsuit seeks access to permit-required documents key to assessing the environmental safety of the facility, documents that State law requires be publicly available.

• (Fact Sheet) Subchapter 8: "The Septic Rule"

• (Fact Sheet) Hudson Valley Foie Gras Pollution Middle Mongaup River

• (Comment) New Jersey's Watershed Rule Comment Letter

• (Press releases) Environmental and Animal Protection Groups Join Together To Stop Water Pollution from Foie Gras Factory Farm

• (Press releases) John Pozsgai Finally Held Accountable for

Sewage Dumping

• (Litigation success) Sewage Plant Expansion not Stopped but Regulatory Review Change Resulted

• (Litigation success) Mercer County Corrections Pollution Discharges Stopped

Rancocas Creek

• (Press releases) Delran Wastewater Plant Dumping Sewage

Wastewater Treatment

• (Current issues) Sewage Spill Bucks County Water and Sewer Authority

Wissahickon Creek

• (Press releases) Wissahickon Creek Hit Again: DRN Calls for Accountability

Stormwater

• (Current issues) Lower Makefield Township

Regulations

• (Litigation success) NJ 300 Foot Buffer Regulation Upheld by Court

• (Advocacy success) NJ Stormwater Regulations and 300 Foot Buffer Requirements Upheld in Court

Waste Dumping

PFOAs

• (Fact Sheet) A Dupont Legacy: PFOA Pollution

VX

• (Litigation success) Plan to Dump VX Nerve Agent Waste into Delaware River Stopped

• (Advocacy success) Plan to Dump VX Nerve Agent Waste into Delaware River Stopped

• (Fact Sheet) Proposal to Treat and Discharge VX Nerve Agent into the Delaware River

• (Fact Sheet) VX Hydrolysate to Dupont?

• (Press releases) Groups from 6 States Urge Safe Destruction Of Nerve Agent Wastes

• (Press releases) VX Proposal Halted by Legislation

• (Press releases) DRN Appeals Army Denial of VX Information

• (Press releases) DRN Calls for 180 Day Reveiw of CDC Report

• (Press releases) Delaware Riverkeeper Network Sues Army to Stop VX

• (Press releases) VX Waste to Dupont in NJ is Dead, Says Dupont

• (Press releases) GAO Discredits Army's VX Destruction Cost Analysis

Water Quality Threat

Alexauken Creek

• (Press releases) Volunteers Needed To Assess the Alexauken Creek

Water Diversions

• (Litigation success) Brandywine Creek Water Diversion Defeated