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The Delaware River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and is the longest free-flowing (undammed) river in the Eastern United States. From the meeting of its branches in Hancock, New York, the river flows for 282 miles (454 km) [1] along the borders of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, before ...
The Delaware Water Gap with the Pennsylvania town of the same name visible in the lower left next to the I-80 crossing. A water gap is a geological feature where a river cuts through a mountain ridge. The Delaware Water Gap formed 500 million years ago [4] when quartz pebbles from mountains in the area were deposited in a shallow sea.
Merrill Creek is connected to the Delaware River, about 3 miles (4.8 km) via a tunnel. The earthen Merrill Creek Dam (National ID # NJ00864), with a height of 280 feet (85 m) and a length at its crest of 1,140 feet (350 m), was built in 1988 by a consortium of seven electric utilities, under the mandate of the Delaware River Basin Commission ...
After a year's delay, a long-planned drawdown of the New York City reservoirs feeding the Upper Delaware River is scheduled to start June 1, in advance of a closure of the Delaware Aqueduct to ...
The deepest point of the Delaware River is at the Big Eddy at Narrowsburg, N.Y., where it reaches 113 feet. "But the depth of the river varies depending on the location. River depth may be between ...
The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for Bucks County and the Delaware Valley on Wednesday, April 3. The water levels of the Neshaminy Creek near Langhorne stood at 5.82 feet as of ...
The Cannonsville Reservoir is a reservoir in the New York City water supply system in Delaware County, New York. It was formed by construction of the Cannonsville Dam on its west end, [2] which impounded over half of the West Branch of the Delaware River. Lying on the western part of the Delaware Watershed, it is the westernmost of New York ...
"The Gap" as seen from the Delaware River Viaduct. The namesake feature of the recreation area is the prominent Delaware Water Gap, located at the area's southern end.The Delaware River runs through the gap, separating Pennsylvania's Mount Minsi on Blue Mountain, elevation 1,461 feet (445 m), from New Jersey's Mount Tammany on Kittatinny Mountain, elevation 1,527 feet (465 m).