Folder 2: Brodhead Dam, 1965 - 1978

- 1965 July 23 Watershed bid renewed - Pipher arranges parley The Pocono Record 1968 May 31 Monroe Officials Concerned About Flood Reoccurrence Easton Express - 1971 February Lower Brodhead Creek Watershed Monroe County Pennsylvania [Flood Control Study Sites maked in red] - 1971 March 4 from Monroe County Commissioners to Mrs. R. M. Davis, State Conservationist RE: propose that Watershed Work Plan for Brodhead Creek Watershed dated March 1971 be revised [2 copies] - 1972 February 18 [incomplete notes] purpose dam planned for site 463 - 1972 June 7 [letterhead] Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - V.R. Butler to Monroe County Commissioners RE: Goose Pond Run - 1972 December 13 [memo] from Joyce Phillips, SCS to Nancy RE: Ralph Abele Fish Commissioner, shallow pool, cold water release [attached to an Envelope from the White House - 1973 February 13 from Walter N. Peechatka to Mr. E. Elmer Kreger Jr. RE: flood Prevention for planning on watershed projects - 1973? February 22 [handwritten notes] SCS Act 217 [see letter Feb.13, 1973 - 1973 February 28 Notice of public Hearing - Delaware River Basin Commission RE: Pocono Farms, Inc. - 1973 March 7 Statement of Commissioner Nancy Shukaitis to State Conservation Commission RE: Lower Brodhead Creek Watershed Project; Pocono Creek Watershed Projects [ 3 copies each] - 1973 May ASCE Civil Engineering, p. 47 “How about this for proposed “dry” flood Control dam? “ written in red - 1973 May 21 Operation and Maintenance Agreement for Structural Measures - between Soil Conservation Services and Monroe County Commissioners - 1973 June 15 [letterhead] Buck Hill Inn and Golf Club - C. Marshall Reese to Mrs. Joseph Shukatis RE: enclosed article [possibly - see May 1973 ASCE] - 1974 January 4 Guidelines for P.L. 566 Project Development Adopted by the State Conservation Commission - 1974 July 22 [handwritten notes] cold water release to prevent run degradation - 1974 July 24 From Lowell W. Edminster to Mervin R. Ice RE: Upper Brodhead Sponsors - 1974 August 15 from Robert J. Sugarman to Lowell Edminster RE: Broadhead Flood Control Program - 1974 August 19 from Lowell W. Edminster to Cliff Dennis RE: previous letters - 1974 December 14 Suit Fights Buck Hill Dam Plans The Express - 1975 December 31 [letterhead] Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - D. W. Perrego to Joel W. Keller, Monroe County Civil Defense RE: Stroudsburg Area Flood Protection Project - 1976 January 9 [handwritten notes] RE: design of dikes, hi-water marks - 1976 March 3 Monroe County Commissioners to Attorney Robert J. Sugarman RE: Meeting on Upper Brodhead Watershed - 1976 March 3 [letterhead] Edward C. Hess Associates Inc. - William L. Hopkins, Jr. To Mr. Joel W. Keller RE: Economic studies on cost benefits for flood control Dams on the Lower Brodhead - 1976 April 9 [letterhead] Concerned Citizens for Conservation - Edwin A. Gee to The Pocono Record RE: status of flood control project for the Upper Brodhead Creek - 1976 April 12 [letterhead] U.S. Dept. of Agriculture - Lowell W. Edminster to Edwin A. Gee RE: meeting held March 23 was not a public relations session, the Soil Conservation Service is always open to local input - 1976 August 11 [letterhead] Edward C. Hess Associates, Inc. - William L. Hopkins, Jr. To Monroe County Commissioners RE: Review of Lower Brodhead Creek Watershed Study Completed by the United States Department of Agricultural Soil Conservation Service - 1976 September 8 [letterhead] Edward C. Hess Associates, Inc. William L. Hopkins,Jr To Mr. R. James Mays RE: Flood Control - Lower Brodhead Creek Watershed Monroe County, Pennsylvania - 1978 October 3 [letterhead] Commissioners’ Office Monroe County to The Honorable Sherman Tribbett Delaware River Basin Commission RE: Rate Increases for Water Charges - ???? [handwritten notes] Purpose of priorities: SCS can staff only two or three, feasibility Re-evaluate priorities in October, Lewisburg: Bull Run - Union County - Susquehanna River, Schedule: Bull Run - Union County 2300 names of petition, Lower Brodhead & Pocono - Monroe County, *Stony Creek - Montgomery *doesn’t like the plan - ???? [handwritten notes] Robert Stewart, Bill Fecke - Asst to Ferguson, 463 Work plan Supplement eliminated purpose, dropped site out, construction permit/Commission won’t approve until State approves> recreation - water Storage - single purpose - flood - prevention, design change=(pool can be added Very limited recreation, sketch of plan: Skyview Estates, Adolph Caprioli, Hedwig Linder - ???? RESUME Ronald Allen Alevras [2 copies]