Today we traveled to the water treatment plant. I found it really interesting that the gates there used the same type of mechanism as the locks on the Delaware canal (as shown above). I guess if it works well there’s no reason to use any different system.
Last Friday, a man from Florida was flying his private plane and ran out of fuel. He had to crash land in the river, leaving the plane there. The small plane is still in the river. Hopefully it will be taken out of the river soon or the fuel and other chemicals from the plane might do damage to the water.
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While doing research on rivers online, I read an article about how tributaries of the Lackawanna and Susquehanna Rivers have both been damaged by acid from abandoned mine projects. Holes dug in the tributaries create water up flow that stains the water and rocks touching it. I thought this was an interesting subject and I didn’t know that this problem was so big in Pennsylvania.
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