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Folder 4: 1970 Part 1, 2/24/1970 - 12/30/1970

 File — Box: 0238.13, Folder: 4
Identifier: 0238.13.4

Scope and Contents

- Tocks Water Lever Queried - The Evening News - 4/1/70 - Tocks Isle Foes Look to New Council - Newark Sunday News - 6/14/70 - Third Sunfish Try - Newark Sunday News - 6/6/70 - Dumont, Thompson To Slate Public Meet on Tocks Plan - The Star - 5/6/70 - Tocks Island Opponents Look to Environment Council - Newark Sunday News - 6/14/70 - Correspondence - To: Harold A. Lockwood, Jr., From: James A. Johnson (Corps of Engineers District Engineer) - attached: environmental statement - 11/10/70 - Old Law Rewards Pollution Informers - Newark Sunday News - 10/4/70 - Case Asks Top Priority For Tocks Landowners - Newark Sunday News -7/19/70 - Correspondence - To: Kenneth Bousquet, Senate Subcommittee on Appropriations, From: E. E. MacNamara, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Lehigh University - 4/28/70 - Correspondence - To: Senator John Cooper, From: James Brooks - 2/24/70 - Tocks Island Citizens Association - Testimony of MRs. John K. Britton, President of the Tocks Island Citizens Association before the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies' Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations - 4/17/70 - Bushkill Awaits Death: Tocks Isle Dam To Engulf Town in Pocono Valley - Philadelphia Inquirer - 5/1/70 - Proposed Dam To 'Drown Out' Pocono Town - Philadelphia Inquirer - 5/17/70 - Tocks Opposition Is Stymied in Attempts to Stop Dam - Philadelphia Inquirer - 5/19/70 - Tocks Project Would Aid in Flood Control - Philadelphia Inquirer - 5/18/70 - Tocks Island Project is Designed to Prevent Flood Disasters - Philadelphia Inquirer - 5/18/70 - Letter to the Editor: Tock's Id. Decried As Pork Barrel Project - Philadelphia Inquirer - 4/15/70 - Henry Reichner Jr - Correspondence - To: John R. Wildrick (Dean, East Stroudsburg University), From: Delaware Valley Conservation Assn VP - 9/30/70 - Correspondence - To: Mrs. David Mazer, From: Richard S. Schweiker - 10/8/70, includes information on project from James A. Johnson, Colonel, Corps of Engineers District Engineer - Alternate Site for Tock's Power Project is Chosen - The Evening News - 3/23/70 - Pahaquarry Disaster Area Status Sought - Easton Express - 9/28/70 - Pahaquarry Vows to Quit Paying Taxes to County - The Evening News - 9/28/70 - Anti-Dam Committee Flyer - includes: British Columbian Dam is Called a Catastrophe for Wildlife in Alberta Delta - New York Times - 12/9/70 - Delaware River Scenic Future Weighed - The Evening News - 4/1/70 - Sandyston taxpayers support Tocks deauthorization - North Jersey Photo News - 12/23/70 - Senate group okays Tocks $$ - Pocono Record - 8/12/70 - Anti-Dam Committee Flyer - The Outrage, Terror and Heartache of Tocks Island Dam - 11/21/70 - Warren Commune Seeks 'Natural' Life - The Evening News - 7/9/70 - Science and Space: Dirty Flows the Delaware - Newsweek - 11/2/70 - Tocks Island Dam and the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area - Commentary on the Environmental Statement Prepared by the Corps of Engineers Concerning the Environmental Impact of Projects - December 1970 - Correspondence - To: Russell Train, Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality, From: Henry W. Smith, Regional Director on the Lenni Lenape League - 12/14/70 - Newsletter - Lenni Lenape League - December 1970 - Quake Potential at Tocks Eyed - Newark Sunday News - 9/27/70 - Experts Fear Water Trickle In 30 Years - The Evening News - 8/7/70 - Power Firms Prodded by Kean On Pumped-Storage Alternatives - Evening News - 8/6/70 - Indignities at Tocks - Newark News - 9/11/70 - Fear if Violence Cutting Park's Use - Evening News - 10/19/70 - President Signs Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1970 - Federal Aids to Local Governments Bulletin - 1/15/71 - Correspondence - To: Nancy Shukaitis, From: Richard S. Schweiker - 10/1/70 - meeting to discuss environmental impacts of Dam - House group OKs more Tocks funds - Pocono Record - 6/19/70 - New data helps to change Ellender's opinion on Tocks: Entire revision on costs - Pocono Record - 5/14/70 - Conservationists lose fight for project in Tocks Island - Pocono Record - 6/13/70 - TIRAC supports uniform land acquisition policy - Pocono Record - 6/29/70 - Comments based upon the recently issued figures of the army corps of engineers regarding seasonal draw-down in the water backed up by the proposed Tocks Island Dam - includes handwritten notes - Annetta Masland - May 1970 - Tocks Island Project Beset By Difficulties Even In Early Stages - Jersey Free Press - 4/29/70- includes pictures - Correspondence - To: Allen J. Ellender, From: Henry R. Schnitzer (Anti-Dam Committee) - 6/23/70 - attached: Anti-Dam Committee Flyer - Tocks Island Opponents Look to Environmental Council - Newark Sunday News - 6/14/70 - Audubon Leader - Volume 11, Number 9 - 5/8/70 - Handwritten Letter - To: Nancy Shukaitis, From: ? [cannot read name] - 5/18/70 - thank you for information on Tocks Island Dam - Anti-Dam Committee Flyer - The Outrage, Terror, and Heartache of Tocks Island Dam - 11/21/70 - Tocks Critics See Algae Growth - The Evening News - 12/29/70 - Correspondence - To: Delaware Conservation Association, From: United States Department of Interior - 8/14/70 - Confirmation that real estate promotion next to the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area is exploitation of the national park name - Correspondence - To: Mr. Russel Train, Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality, From: Joan Matheson, VP Delaware Valley Conservation Association - 12/30/70 - DVCA's comments on the preliminary draft of the Engineer Corps' Environmental Statement concerning the impact of the Tocks Island Dam - Tocks Critics See Algae Growth Rendering Reservoir Useless - Evening News - 12/29/70 - Conservationists See Threat to Tocks Area From Future Pollution - Morning Call - 12/30/70 - Correspondence - To: Honorable Alan Bible, Chairman, Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation, From: Delaware Valley Conservation Association - 4/15/70 - delaware water gap national recreation area - Correspondence - To: Mr. Russell Train, Council on Environmental Quality, From: Marion Masland - 7/3/70 - Diversion of Delaware River Water, Hearing on Water Quality Standards - 6/16/70 - Hearing 6/24/70 on "Point Pleasant Pump Station" To the Representative of the Delaware River Basin Commission - Briefing on Nuclear Plant Hearing, Hearing on Regional Waste Treatment Plant - 7/7/70 - Information on: Environmental Planning & Information Center of Penna. Inc., Penna. Environmental Council Inc. - 7/10/70 - Earth: on and under - Sunday Bulletin Editorial - 6/7/70, Basin Commission Urged To Go Slow on A-Plants - Bulletin - 7/17/70, Nuclear Plants Defended At Environmental Forum - Philadelphia Inquirer - 7/11/70 - Notice of Public Hearing - Delaware River Basin Commission - 6/29/70 - Newbold Island Generating Station, Limerick Generating Station - Transcript - Marion W. Masland to the Delaware River Basin Commission - 7/16/70 - Statement of the Environmental Planning and Information Center of Pennsylvania, Inc. Before the Delaware River Basin Commission Regarding the Proposed Nuclear Generating Stations 7/16/70 - Power, Profit, No Pollution? U.S. Invests in New Process - Morning Call - 7/9/70, Radiation eye-opener - Sunday Bulletin - 6/7/70 - Joe McGinniss and His Best-Seller: The Making of a Shy Celebrity - Philadelphia Inquirer - 5/17/70 - Tocks Dam Foes Charge Army Goofs, Bitter Tocks Opposition Swirls on Delaware - Evening News - 4/17/70 - Sussex Group To Lead Tours of Tocks Area - Correspondence - To: Dr. Leo Stern Jr., From: Harold A. Lockwood, Jr. - 5/13/70 - Delaware River Wild and Scenic Rivers Act - Correspondence - To: Mr. Kenneth Bousquet, Staff Assistant, Senate Subcommittee on Appropriations, From: E. E. Macnamara, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Lehigh University - 4/28/70 - problematic nature of hydroelectricity at Tocks Island Dam - Copy of the Sierra Club's (Atlantic Chapter) Resolution Concerning the Proposed Dam and Reservoir Complex at Tocks Island of the Delaware River - 9/29/70 - Convention in the Poconos: Ecology Vital, Municipal Officials Told - Morning Call - 9/15/70

Dates

  • Creation: 2/24/1970 - 12/30/1970

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

English

Access Restrictions

Access Restrictions: Collection housed remotely. Users need to contact 24 hours in advance.

Extent

From the Collection: 66 Linear Feet (33 cartons)

Repository Details

Part of the Lehigh University Special Collections Repository

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