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	Tocks Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tocks Island, located upstream from Delaware Water Gap in the Delaware River was the controversial site of a dam, proposed in the 1950s, which would have created a 37 mile (60 km) long lake between Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with depths of up to 140 feet.
		The Tocks Island Dam Project was proposed after the 1955 flood which caused several deaths and immeasurable damage to the Delaware River basin.
		The Tocks Island National Recreation Area was to be established around the lake, which would offer recreation activities such as hunting, hiking, fishing, and boating.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tocks_Island (520 words)

	Yardley News - Tocks Island Dam: No longer an option? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Tocks Island, which can be seen from New Jersey, is located about six miles away from the Delaware Water Gap, Albert wrote.
		The estimated cost for construction of the Tocks Island Dam, to be completed in 1975, would be between $146 and $177 million, according to Albert.
		Unfortunately the article was filled with several inaccuracies beginning with "The catalyst for the proposed dam and others in the region was the devastating Flood of 1955." Tocks Island Dam was not at all intended to be a flood control project.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14666490&BRD=1683&PAG=461&dept_id=40799&rfi=6 (1479 words)

	Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area - In Depth Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Establishing the Park: The Tocks Island Dam Controversy
		The Legacy of the Tocks Island Dam is a retrospective newspaper series of 11 articles about the Tocks Island Dam project by the staff of the Pocono Record.
		The Living Treasure series continues with a founder of the Delaware Valley Conservation Association, a local activist group against the Tocks Island Dam project.
	www.nps.gov /dewa/Facts/ADMindex.html (784 words)

	NJN - New Jersey Public Television and Radio
		In the 1970s, The New York Times interviewed some local residents about the effects of the Tocks Island project, and reported their belief that Peter’s Valley was named for Peter DeGelleke, first superintendent of the Delaware Water gap National Recreation Area.
		While the COE was the chief instigator of the Tocks Island project, it was not the only player.
		Tocks Island was officially de-authorized in 1992, but it continues to rear its ugly head.
	www.njn.net /artsculture/starts/season04-05/2301kevinperry.html (2183 words)

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		Although I remembered the Tocks Island Project when I was growing up in Port Jervis, I didn't remember the details; so, I searched the internet and came up with information on the project proposal, approval, and then rejection.
		First proposed in 1962, the Tocks Island Dams would have destroyed 37 miles of the Delaware River, 10,000 acres of farmland, forests and wildlife habitats, as well as sport and commercial fisheries.
		Anyway, Tock Island Dam and Recreation area never happened; but, work leading up to dam construction is why we are discussing this today.
	pages.prodigy.net /vanauken1/vanauken/TOCKS2.HTM (862 words)

	Could the Tocks Island Dam on the Delware River Be Built? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Throughout the course of the many local public meetings about recent floods in and around Yardley Borough, a handful of people wonder whether the Tocks Island Dam, originally proposed in 1960, could be built far north of here, and whether it would alleviate more floods.
		After the Flood of '55, flood control was another use that was contemplated, but the primary use remained for water supply." The Tocks Island Dam would have been located around Tocks Island, which is now part of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
		I was told that if Tocks Island had been constructed in '55, the peak at Trenton would have been lowered by a foot and a half." Though Rupert emphasized that "upstream dams don't stop flooding, they can have an effect.
	www.gsenet.org /library/11gsn/2005/gs050610.7.html (1234 words)

	HERE: High Water Mark
		Almost as soon as the Tocks Island bill was signed into law, the Corps set to work buying up houses throughout the valley, by direct purchase when possible, by eminent domain and forced eviction when necessary.
		While costs for the Tocks Island Dam were easy to estimate (or underestimate, as many charged), the Corps pointed to a whole raft of varied benefits to justify them.
		Mina, for her part, remains convinced that the true rationale for the Tocks Island Dam was indeed water, but not for drinking.
	www.heremagazine.com /dam.html (5886 words)

	Damming the Delaware: The Rise and Fall of Tocks Island Dam
		This was a very extensive explanation of the Tocks Island Dam project as well as the development of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
		The countryside is beautiful as a National Recreation Area and a project such as the Tocks Island Dam would be devastating to the whole surrounding area.
		Environmental studies suggested that the large number of poultry farms upstream of the proposed Tock's Island Dam would turn the new reservoir into "one gigantic cesspool." I call this segment of the story, "How Chicken Poop Saved the Delaware." Second, the whole land acquisition process went sour.
	www.centrasoft.net /b06/0271004819.htm (1109 words)

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		A Pennsylvania resort owner is considering building a hotel and conference center on an island he owns in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, a favorite destination of New Jersey nature-seekers.
		Kirkwood's island, Depue Island, is just south of Tocks Island, around which the federal government decided in 1962 to build a dam to create a vast reservoir and a power station.
		For years she led the fight against the Tocks Island Dam, which the government did not scrap for good until 1992.
	www.nynjtc.org /externalnews/2004/shawnee.html (1065 words)

	Tocks Island Dam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The preface presents a brief description of the proposed Tocks Island Dam project.
		It may be used to stimulate a discussion of the general approach an analyst should take in estimating the costs and benefits of a multipurpose dam.
		Tocks Island Dam: Preface, 2pp+, (C15-79-221.0); Tocks Island Dam: Preface: Teaching Note, 2pp, (C15-79-221.2); Tocks Island Dam, 21pp+, (C15-79-222.0); Tocks Island Dam: Supplement, 6pp, (C15-79-222.4); Tocks Island Dam: Teaching Note, 7pp, (C15-79-222.2)
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /case/caseweb/catalog/abstracts/TocksIslandDam.html (287 words)

	On a Dream Job (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		During my tenure as editor, I wrote about the Tocks Island Dam, the Warren County Freeholders and their highly questionable antics, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a congressman named Joe Maraziti, the five sewerage authorities of Warren County, which I killed, and the Delaware River Basin Commission.
		Helen asked for my support, but I said no. She refused to take a stand on the Tocks Island Dam and held stock in several power companies that were involved with the Tocks project.
		Maraziti was strongly opposed to Tocks, so I supported him in a big editorial two weeks before the election.
	www.rharpster.com /job.htm (577 words)

	On Tocks Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It was by far my 13 year coverage of the Tocks Island Dam.
		I was literally obsessed with that story and I was encouraged by the Newark News which received more mail about my Tocks stories than anything in recent history.
		Defeating Tocks Island Dam was an enormous journalistic feat and I am proud to say I was a major factor in its demise.
	www.rharpster.com /tocks.htm (575 words)

	Index of Pocono Record retrospective of Tocks Island Dam Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Legacy of the Tocks Island Dam a retrospective report of the Pocono Record with articles by David Pierce, Gerald Sutherland, Bert Walter, and Eric Mark, appeared August 12 through 14, 2001.
		Part 3: Tocks Island In The News: The "squatter" situation.
		Part 4: Blocking the Dam It took years for the government to evict the "squatters" and by then the Tocks Island dam was sunk.
	www.nps.gov /dewa/InDepth/POREindx.html (364 words)

	National Park Service: Parks for America (New Jersey) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A 33-mile-long reservoir is authorized for the Delaware River Valley in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, above the Delaware Water Gap.
		Tocks Island National Recreation Area, proposed for the site, would be readily accessible to 15 percent of the U.S. population.
		NATIONAL: Establishment of the proposed Tocks Island Reservoir as a national recreation area, and cooperative study of an Appalachian Parkway, a portion of which would pass through New Jersey.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/parks_america/new_jersey.htm (843 words)

	New Jersey Herald
		It was following the deauthorization of the Tocks Island Project, which would have flooded much of the valley, that the National Park Service inherited the village from the Army Corps of Engineers.
		The NPS faced the unenviable task of dealing with angry residents who had been uprooted from their homes for the Tocks Island Project and an abandoned village comprised of about 30 vacant dwellings.
		In due time the buildings were converted into studios for such activities as ceramics, pottery, photography, weaving, woodworking, etc. One of the buildings which now serves as a dining hall is a former church which formerly housed two separate congregations, but not always peacefully.
	www.njherald.com /289918032395794.php (867 words)

	Amazon.com: Damming the Delaware: The Rise And Fall of Tocks Island Dam: Books: Richard C. Albert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In contrast to incisive analyses of Western water issues (e.g., Marc P. Reisner, Cadillac Desert, LJ 8/86), Albert of the Delaware River Basin Commission provides a balanced but uninspiring summary of the public record on water resource planning for the last major undammed river in the United States.
		Tocks Island Dam has a convoluted history that spans two centuries and involves four states, two major cities, and many federal agencies.
		The project, deauthorized by both historical accidents and improved economic and environmental analyses, provides a history lesson in how societies and their governments change.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0271027452?v=glance (1625 words)

	The Deadliest Carnivore
		Although there are seven other native carnivore species on the island, the fossa is largely credited with keeping lemur populations in check.
		Unfortunately, we still don't know how many fossa there are, exactly how they hunt and breed in the wild (though a fossa pair was filmed mating in a tree this past year), or how habitat losses are affecting their numbers.
		The island's ecology depends on a mystery, it seems--one that Dollar is doing his best to unravel.
	www.madagascar-travel.net /feature04.html (3539 words)

	The Isaac Everitt House on Old Mine Road
		This house was photographed and documented by the Historical American Buildings Survey (HABS) shortly before it was demolished for the Tocks Island project in 1975.
		This map as made using traverse data on a surveyor's map that was kindly provided to me by Jack Decker, assistant historian at M.A.R.C.H. The property consisted of four tracts, the largest of which straddled Old Mine Road at the S-curve, about 2 miles south of the Brick House in Montague.
		The other tracts were on the southern tips of Minisink Island and an adjoining Island on its east side, as well as the entire area of another small island on the west side of Minisink Island.
	home1.gte.net /vze4p5bi/everitthouse.htm (745 words)

	Watershed Sentinel-April/May 2002
		Eastern Vancouver Island (roughly the south-east fifth of the island) was largely exempted from biodiversity considerations under the Protected Areas Strategy because the vast majority of it is privately owned.
		As a result, east island ecosystems were left out of public forest biodiversity initiatives and they have nowhere near the 12% protection that the province committed to.
		An island of rare apples, an island of wild sheep, an island of wild flowers and birds, an island of architecture without architects, an island of hard-working families and individuals, an island that is still a First Nation, an island that gets swamped by the summer tide of tourists.
	www.watershedsentinel.ca /Archives_WSS/ws122.htm (13484 words)

	Title page for ETD 953 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Tocks Island Dam, the Delaware River and the End of the Big Dam Era
		Uniquely situated chronologically as well as geographically, the fight over the Tocks Island Dam occurred during the tumultuous decades before and after the landmark environmental legislation of the 1970s, and during iv the end of the Big Dam Era.
		And during this transformation in national policy, the fate of Tocks Island Dam and the Delaware River became entangled in, and contributed to those larger social changes.
	etda.libraries.psu.edu /theses/approved/WithheldIndex/ETD-953 (368 words)

	NJ 94 Freeway (unbuilt)
		Since it was to serve the nearby Tocks Island Recreation Area (also proposed that year), the state believed that it could secure an Interstate designation for NJ 94.
		It was to serve the Tocks Island Recreation Area that was proposed at the time.
		The freeway was to continue northeast into New York State along the US 209 corridor as the "Catskill Expressway." However, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) rejected the proposal.
	www.nycroads.com /roads/NJ-94 (508 words)

	Take a ride on Old Mine Road -- the Oldest Road in America
		From that point on, the already unpopular Tocks Island Dam project rapidly lost political support.
		The most striking example of the abandonment is the small town of Wallpack Center, where the boarded-up buildings are all painted the same dreary shade of government- issue white.
		And, search all you like, but you will not find a road sign identifying the infamous Tocks Island.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/motorcycles_adventure/92939/3 (359 words)

	Richard C. Albert: Damming the Delaware
		The history of the Tocks Island Dam Project is traced from an early 1783 anti-dam treaty, through the highly emotional environmental controversy in the 1970s, to the historic Good Faith agreement of the 1980s.
		The story involves the water politics of four states, two major U.S. cities, and the federal government, plus the influence of the environmental movement over major public works projects.
		A major shift in the underlying philosophies of Delaware River management during the intervening years is described along with various successes and failures in water management.
	www.psupress.org /books/titles/0-271-00481-9.html (249 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		That had been one of the areas, noted in past meetings, that officials believed contributed to feelings among workers that managment wasn't listening to their concerns.
		Several members of the Council who supported the mayor's plan framed the vote as an issue of "environmental racism" because it promised that by shifting garbage to barges, the city could reduce truck traffic in crowded neighborhoods where the diesel exhaust is suspected of helping cause heart disease, cancer and asthma.
		Councilman Michael E. McMahon of Staten Island, chairman of the solid waste committee and a critic of the placement of transfer stations in the mayor's plan, said the residential neighborhood around 91st Street should not be punished now simply because it had been spared before.
	www.gsenet.org /library/11gsn/2005/gs050610.htm (11358 words)

	Pocono History
		The Tocks Island Dam was a huge multi-purpose reservoir project proposed for the
		. A year later Congress passed the Flood Control Act of 1962 calling for the Tocks Island Dam Project to be built. In 1965 President Lyndon Johnson authorized construction of the dam. Construction was to begin in 1967 and by 1972 the reservoir was to begin filling and be fully operational by 1975.
		As the President made his way along the platform the band began playing the traditional “Hail to the Chief.” The President stopped to greet and shake the hand of Governor Scranton, knowing the two may be opposing each other in the next presidential election.
	www.poconohistory.com /PikeCounty.htm (3788 words)

	About Mina Hamilton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		She has taught stress-reduction to doctors, nurses and staff at Long Island College Hospital, New York Methodist Hospital/Cornell University and at the Holy Family Home.
		She is a long-time environmental activist and was one of the leaders in the successful battle to stop the Tocks Island Dam.
		Delaware River north of the Delaware Water Gap: One of the Northeast's last free-flowing rivers was saved when the Tocks Island Dam was defeated.
	www.serenity2go.com /mina.html (185 words)

	thebackpacker.com - trails & places - delaware water gap national recreation area - intro
		The recreation area was originally envisioned as lands surrounding the proposed Tocks Island Reservoir.
		Early planning, management and land acquisitions were accomplished amid much controversy over the dam project.
		In 1992 the Tocks Island Dam project was officially de-authorized.
	www.thebackpacker.com /trails/pa/dewa.php (163 words)

	DV World- News: Lights, Camera, Action at National History Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The documentary, called Controversy on the Delaware: A Look Upstream at the Tocks Island Dam Project, took a look at the 1965 proposal to dam the Delaware River six miles upstream from the Delaware Water Gap.
		The documentary was completed by juniors Ryan B., Don B., Keith F., and Nick T. and senior Brett F. and presented at the regional competition at the Wilkes-Barre Penn State campus.
		This year’s National History Day theme is “Taking a Stand in History: People, Ideas, Events.” The Tocks Island topic fit into the theme well, as the documentary featured interviews with local residents who fought the government as their property was acquired by the US Army Corps of Engineers.
	dvasdweb.dvasd.k12.pa.us /dvworld/news06-03-27nhd.html (323 words)

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