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THE DELAWARE RIVER
LINKS
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By: FREDA R. SAVANA The Intelligencer
A proposal to expand the amount of land along the Delaware River
that's defined as flood plain in hopes of reducing the impact of
future floods has riverside property owners concerned about its
impact on them.
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A $19 million plan to repair stretches of River Road, a state
road that parallels the
Delaware River, was unveiled Thursday more than two years
after a June 2005 flood inflicted major damage.
The following work should begin this fall and conclude in May:
*The stretch between Greenhill Road and Route 263 in Solebury
will be closed and detoured as crews reconstruct Route 32 and
install a 1,800-foot-long concrete retaining wall, a guide rail,
six storm water inlets, drainage pipes and a clay liner along the
sides and bottom of the
Delaware Canal. The detour will take motorists over Route 263
and Greenhill and Aquetong roads.
*In the area between the Milford Bridge and Trail's End Canal
Bridge in Bridgeton, crews will restore embankments, reconstruct a
sagging roadway and install a guard rail. The road will be open.
*A cantilever concrete retaining wall with a stone faade will
be built about 500 feet south of Fleecy Dale Road in Solebury,
forcing the closure of Route 32 here. The detour will include
routes 263, 202 and 413, PennDOT said.
*PennDOT needs to reinforce and stabilize a vulnerable
embankment in Solebury south of New Hope. Route 32 will remain
open.
*Pavement needs to be excavated and the road then reconstructed
between Scudders Falls Bridge and Robinson Place in Lower
Makefield. A guide rail will be built too, and the road will be
open.
*Near East Trenton Avenue/Calhoun Street in Lower Makefield,
PennDOT will stabilize the Delaware Canal embankment, reconstruct
Route 32 and install a guide rail. Route 32 will be open.
Christopher Ruvo can be reached at (215) 538-6371 or
cruvo@phillyburbs.com.
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themorningcall.com
Delaware River residents' fear: You can't get there from here
www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b6_2river-3r.6043658sep14,0,2040790.story
Long-pending flood repairs have Bucks businesses worried.
By Patrick Lester, Of The Morning Call, September 14,
2007
Detour and road closure markers already dotting Route 32 will
begin multiplying this fall when the state begins seven months and
$19 million worth of improvement projects between Durham and Lower
Makefield townships in the aftermath of three consecutive years of
flooding.
Much of the work is designed to repair damage to roads and
banks, much of which occurred in 2005 , and to prevent future
flood damage.
State officials did their best at a Thursday meeting in
Nockamixon Township to allay fears the work will be a business
buster for those who make their living in the tourist hotbed.
Multiple projects begin in two months and could last through
Memorial Day 2008.
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Copyright © 2007, The Morning Call
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Stop building along rivers, official says
In Bucks, DEP chief says construction by streams invites costly
disasters.
By Scott Kraus | Of The Morning Call
August 8, 2007
State regulators want to create a construction-free buffer around
Pennsylvania's creeks, streams and rivers, Department of
Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen McGinty told attendees
at a meeting on flooding Tuesday in Bucks County.
The new water quality regulation -- which must still run a
gauntlet of boards and committees to take effect -- would slow
runoff into rivers and streams, improve water quality and help to
lessen the risk of severe flooding, she said.
''It would require in every proposed development a very
significant setback from the edge of every stream,'' McGinty told
the group, many of whose homes were damaged in three Delaware
River floods from 2004 through 2006.
The state's target for new development is a 50-foot setback, which
is what research shows is the minimum needed to preserve water
quality, she said.
Right now, it's left up to each municipality. Some have
restrictions, but many don't.
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FLOOD MEETING
What: Delaware River Basin Flood Advisory Committee
Where: Delaware River Basin Commission, 25 State Police Drive,
West Trenton, N.J.
When: 10 a.m. Aug. 22
More information: http://www.state.nj.us/drbc/
scott.kraus@mcall.com
215-230-4930 |
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Repair could hit $35 million
The work, expected to be completed by the
fall of 2009, will fix the flood-damaged canal from Easton to
Yardley, using federal and state money.
A project to repair the devastation the Delaware Canal saw from
three floods in less than two years is expected to cost as much as
$35 million.
Bids for the first phase of work, which will fix the canal from
Easton to Raubsville in Northampton County, have been taken by the
state. Those for the second section — New Hope to Yardley — will
be sent out shortly.
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Task force lists ways to thwart flood damage
By BRIAN SCHEID
Members of a 9-month-old task force have
come up with 45 recommendations they believe will alleviate damage
caused by flooding along the Delaware River.
The recommendations, agreed on by the 31
members of the Delaware River Basin Interstate Flood Mitigation
Task Force, include setting up priority funding for home
elevations and developing stricter floodplain regulations and more
rigorous storm water management.
However, the recommendations do not include
a call for year-round caps on reservoir levels, which several
lawmakers and riverfront residents have contended would reduce
flooding downriver. Task force members have instead called for a
study of the operations at major reservoirs in the river’s basin
to see if regulating reservoir levels and releases would help
reduce flooding.
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