The remains of the Legacy Dam on Bushkill Creek right above where we entered earlier in the year.
Day: October 3, 2019
The Lehigh river dam is 590 feet long and 30 feet deep. If the dam was to be removed it would cost 10-18 million dollars and produces electricity for 300 homes (about). 
Over the past month, every time I have been walking on the quad, I have noticed in some ways the pathways act like rivers. Students of the college walk both ways along these paths in order to reach a certain destination, much like shad do on the Delaware. These pathways also run both ways like the Nile River and the Hudson River. It is also not uncommon for these pathways to diverge and split off into two paths, and sometimes three. It’s always interesting to see on certain days how the weather affects the activity of these “rivers” on campus much like the weather may affect the activity of actual rivers elsewhere. 
https://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/iowa-communities-near-missouri-river-prepare-more-possible-flooding#stream/0
https://www.kq2.com/content/news/Missouri-River-to-crest-near-major-flood-stage-in-St-Joseph-this-weekend-561801511.html
Because Becca and I are researching the Mississippi River for our story map project, I’ve been keeping a little bit of an eye out for stories and news related to the Mississippi River – specifically in terms of flooding. While I was looking around on the internet a couple days ago, I found several stories about the Missouri River – which flows into the Mississippi River – reporting on how the river has been flooding and devastating communities up and down – as far west as Iowa to as far east as St. Joseph, Missouri. Because this is more of a home river for me, I am concerned and interested in the developing situation. I haven’t experienced or seen flooding on this scale when I lived in Missouri, so its frankly terrifying to see the scale of devastation and destruction that these rivers are bringing.
An invasive species called the northern snakehead, also known by the nickname “frankenfish,” is an invasive species from Russia, China, and Korea. Snakeheads are predatory fish that can grow as long as 5 feet in length! They feed on most fish in Pennsylvania, frogs, insects, small birds, and mammals. They also posses an air bladder that allows them to breathe and travel on land. They can survive up to 4 days out of water! The diet of the snakehead interferes with the diet of native fish like American shad and trout, which causes major concern. A fisherman caught a 28 inch snakehead last week in the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh. This was the first sighting of the snakehead in Western Pennsylvania. However, 81 snakeheads were caught last spring in the Susquehanna River near the Conowingo Dam last spring! They were killed. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said that they think the snakehead species was illegally released into Pennsylvania rivers. The goal is to stop the snakeheads before they complete take over the underwater food chain in Pennsylvania rivers.
The image above is of a “river” of horses in Ireland. My grandparents own a horse farm in Ireland where they take care of them and train them for races. Multiple of my uncles are jockeys and I would help take care of them every time I visited. horses have always been a large part of my life since I’ve been young.