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Delaware Water Gap National Recreation AreaBushkill Access, April 2005. NPS Photo by Lori Rohrer.
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Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
Stories: Major Floods since 1955

Most of these features were first published in the park's newsletter, Spanning the Gap (STG) or in the Cultural Resource Management magazine, CRM. STG and CRM features are pdf files.
For related pages in this website, and for links to other websites for each feature,
look up the feature under:
• NEWS: Park Newspaper-Features from Back Issues, by year (STG features) or under:
• NEWS: Park Newspaper-CRM Magazine, by topic (CRM features)  

Map of the Delaware River Basin
(on the website of the Delaware River Basin Commission)

 

MAJOR FLOODS

Photo Gallery: The Flood of 1955 Snapshots from the park's collection

Individuals who were there (under People: Individuals): Ruth Jones | Nancy Shukaitis | Nancy Shukaitis in her own words

Flooding and Funding (STG: Spring 1996 Vol. 18, No. 1) The effect of the January 1996 flood upon the recreation area.  
Additional material:
• Photo Gallery: The Flood of January 1996

Ivan Causes Region's Third Worst Flood (STG: Winter 2004/2005 Vol. 26, No. 2) A condensation of the flood briefing statement. By park ranger Kathleen Sandt.
Additional material:
• Photo Gallery: Ivan Passes Through Photos by park staff of the September 2004 flood.

More Terrible than Ivan: The Spring Flood of 2005 (STG: Summer/Fall 2005 Vol. 27 No. 1) By Management Assistant Bill Halainen.
Additional material:
• Photo Gallery: The Spring Flood of 2005

Flood ... Again, June 2006 (STG: Summer/Fall 2006 Vol. 28 No. 1) Impact of the third major flood in 22 months
Additional material:
• Photo Gallery: The June 2006 Flood

 

Photo Galleries on all subjects
Architect's aerial view of an earthen dam stretching across a wide river  

Did You Know?
... that the reservoir of the proposed Tocks Island Dam would have inundated 30 miles of the Delaware River and 30,000 acres of its river valley (now part of Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.) The defeat of the dam was an early victory of the environmental movement in this country.
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