2005 Newspaper Articles

From The Morning Call -- April 14, 2005
By Kelly Madsen
Special to The Morning Call

Group unveils Gallows Run plan Nonprofit seeks to ease flooding on watershed in Upper Bucks.

The Gallows Run Watershed Association publicly unveiled its plans Wednesday to restore and protect its namesake.

''Protecting the watershed is important, because we all share the same drinking water,''

association President Todd Stone said.

A watershed is an area that drains into a body of water, and this one drains to Gallows Run and Nockamixon creeks.

 

The Morning Call -- April 4, 2005

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_3floodingapr04,0,7554009.story

 

WASHOUT

River region flooded, bridges closed, families evacuated.

By Matt Assad

and Joe McDonald Of The Morning Call

The rain-swollen Delaware River poured over its banks and into waterfront communities throughout Monroe, Northampton and Bucks counties Sunday, chasing thousands of people from their homes and businesses in a playback of the devastation that followed Hurricane Ivan six months ago.

 

Pennsylvania DEP to corral runaway Tinicum Township landfill

Thursday, April 28, 2005

Dr. James Diamond said he felt like he could cry when he saw garbage piling up on his Nockamixon Township property after last September's flooding washed out a diversion ditch and soil that had been holding back the contents of the old Bickel Landfill, built over Rapp Creek.

 

 
 
     

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