Folder 11, 6/22/1962 - 5/29/1974
Scope and Contents
- Petition - From: Monroe County - urges Congress to include the Delaware River in the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968, 393 signatures - Newspaper clipping - 5/29/1969 - “Just Between Us” - Correspondence - 3/14/1969 - From: Nancy Shukaitis, To; Alan Bible - details opposition to the pumped storage at Sunfish Pond - Handwritten letter - 6/1969 - To: Nancy Shukaitis - details information from Shukaitis and where it will be printed, along with a suggestion to subpoena the NBC Documentary team on the Tocks Island Project - Correspondence - 2/26/1969 - From: Nancy Shukaitis, To: Michael Frome - details the blastings in the mountainside of New Jersey and its effects - attached correspondence - 2/20/1969 - From: Michael Frome, To: Nancy Shukaitis - thanks shukaitis for sent materials and details his opinion - attached correspondence - 2/8/1969 - From: Casey Kays, To: Nancy Shukaitis - details hearings on appropriations for the Tocks Island Project, along with contacts for editors of magazines he corresponds with - attached correspondence - 2/11/1969 - From: Nancy Shukaitis, To: Michael Frome - details various hearings on environmental concerns and budgeting for environmental projects by the federal government - Newspaper clipping - 9/11/1968 - “Park Unit Starts Condemnation Of Camp Weygadt” - Easton Express - includes handwritten notes in margin - Official document - 5/29/1974 - Representative Joe McDade asking for support of a bill preventing construction of the Tocks Island dam - Official document - “Actions of Commissioner Stuart Pipher as Chairman of the Monroe County Board of Commissioners in 1965” - details timeline of events regarding actions of Stuart Pipher and includes attached document on the Tocks Island Project, including a statement by Pipher - Newspaper clipping - 3/21/1972 - “Squatters Object to Tocks Fires” - The Express - Newspaper clipping - 2/23/1968 - “Secret Report Questions Validity Of Tocks Project” - Easton Express - attached newspaper clipping - 3/3/1968 - “Threat to River Area” - New York Times - attached newspaper clipping - 3/1/1968 - “Abandon Tocks Dam Plan, Hearing Witness Proposes” - Easton Express - Newspaper clipping - 3/28/1976 - “Discover (includes several articles)” - Sunday Bulletin - Newspaper clipping - 3/13/1966 - “Ask More Funds For Tocks Lands” - Newark Sunday News - Newspaper clipping - 6/22/1962 - “Report On The Delaware River Basin: Commission Has Many Plans Along With Tocks Island Dam” - The Daily Record - Note - 9/1971 - “Save The Valley” - flyer urges those against the Tocks Island Project to support Save The Valley - Note - detailing the issues with noise in the Delaware Valley, addressed to Save The Valley - Newspaper clipping - 5/10/1971 - “Tocks cost soars to $388.2 million” - The Pocono Record - Newspaper clipping - 1/14/1974 - “Will Tocks get damned? Corps colonel says ‘yes’” - The Pocono Record - Newspaper clipping - 10/5/1969 - “‘Progress’ Threatens Valley of Delaware” - Newark Sunday News - Newspaper clipping - 10/10/1963 - “High Dam Falls in Italy; Town Reported Engulfed” - New York Times - Newspaper clipping - 5/4/1972 - “N.J. unit opposes Tocks” - Official document - 8/5/1971 - “Washington Letter: Tocks Island” - letter from Representative Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen detailing debate of amendment to the public works appropriation bill for funding of Tocks Island Project - Newspaper clipping - 8/5/1971 - “Secrecy surrounds Tocks project” - The Times Herald Record - attached newspaper clipping - 8/5/1971 - “U.S. kept lid on Tocks plans, Pa. agency claims” - The Times Herald Record” - Newspaper clipping - 7/16/1973 - “Wild, as Far as Jervis” - The Express - Correspondence - 4/23/1968 - From: Eugene B. Wilhelm, To: Nancy Shukaitis - details Shuakitis’ appearance before the Public Works Subcommittee on Appropriations on 5/7/1968 - attached correspondence - 4/24/1968 - From: Allen J. Ellender, To: Nancy Shukaitis - details enclosed information for the hearing on 5/8/1968 - attached official document - details how to present documents as a witness and the transcript of the hearing, and includes a list of members of the Committee on Appropriations - Newspaper clipping - 11/11/1972 - “Delaware Water Gap: A Recreation Area For All Seasons” - New York Times - Newspaper clipping - “Maraziti Opposed To Tocks Island Dam” - New Jersey Federated Sportsmen - Newspaper clipping - “Corps Sees Relocation After Floods” - Newspaper clipping - 4/14/1973 - “Move Ahead on Water Resources Plans, DRBC Urged” - The Morning Call - Newspaper clipping - 9/14/1972 - “Cahill Withholds Tocks island Support, Demand Change” -New York Times - Newspaper clipping - “Report, in Reversal, Back Tocks Island Plan” - Newspaper clipping - 9/11/1972 - “Pressure Is Put on Cahill To Modify Tocks Island Plan” - New York Times - Newspaper clipping - 5/23/1972 - “Park Yes, Dam No” - Newspaper clipping - 9/10/1972 - “Cahill Surveys Tocks Island Dam Site by Air; Decision Slated Wednesday” - New York Times - Newspaper clipping - 9/6/1972 - “Tocks report Misread Pa. Legislative Unit Says” - Easton Express - Newspaper clipping - 9/22/1971 - “TIRAC to deliver commentary on pumped storage at Tocks” and “Construction of Tocks Dam to begin only after study of eutrophication problem” - Free Press - Newspaper clipping - 8/1969 - “One Dam Problem After Another!” - American Agriculturist - Newspaper clipping - 5/26/1971 - “Tocks Island Project Price Tag: $370 Million” - New Jersey Herald - Newspaper clipping - 10/21/1971 - “Senator To Propose Flood Control Plan” - Cranford Citizen and Chronicle - Newspaper clipping - 5/2/1971 - “The Tocks Island dam has become a war cry” - Sunday Record - Official document - “Annual report 1965” - details water resource issues, including supply, quality, and drought and budgeting- Delaware River Basin Commission
Dates
- Creation: 6/22/1962 - 5/29/1974
Language of Materials
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
Lehigh University
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