The Schooner A.J. Meerwald, as seen by the Delaware River at the Tall Ships Philadelphia Camden Festival, Friday, June 26, 2015. The restored oyster dredging ship schooner, New Jersey’s official Tall Ship is located in Bivalve, New Jersey. Lori M. Nichols | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
The Delaware River Basin includes eastern Pennsylvania, as well as Schuylkill and Berks counties. It will be one the five focus areas across the nation that will be receiving large amounts of federal money. Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
The U.S. Department of the Interior estimates that $26 million will be spent over the next five-years in the Delaware Basin. This area stretches 330 miles from the rivers headwaters of New York’s Catskill south through eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the Delaware Bay. The Delaware is fed by more than 2,000 streams and tributary rivers along its south route.
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