Delaware River

Delaware Riverkeepers looking for volunteer water pollution monitors

The Delaware Riverkeeper Network and Riverways Coalition are seeking enthusiastic individuals that are interested in adopting a section of a creek, stream, or river in the Philadelphia region for weekly monitoring. Volunteers will conduct visual assessments of Combined Sewer Overflow outfalls at their assigned sections.

Delaware Riverkeeper Network seeks to join suit DHS has filed against state DEP

The Delaware Riverkeeper Network and Green Amendments For the Generations have filed a petition to intervene in a lawsuit the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has brought against the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. The DHS brought the suit after DEP notified ICE that it could not operate two large warehouse facilities in Berks and Schuylkill Counties as immigrant detention centers without making needed modifications and securing multiple state and local approvals to address concerns about drinking water, wastewater, environmental, health, safety, and fire suppression.

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