"island" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Dr. Allen was referring to an earlier plan to dam the Delaware at Tocks Island, flooding 12,000 acres of the recreation area.
- Plans by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1990's to dam the Delaware near Tocks Island would have flooded the plain, swallowing it forever.
- A 1950s proposal to construct a dam near Tocks Island across the Delaware River was met with considerable controversy and protest.
- Tocks Island is located in the Delaware River a short distance north from the Delaware Water Gap.
- The federal government restored plans from the 1930s to build dams along the Delaware River, one of which along Tocks Island.
- But it also symbolizes the legacy of Tocks Island: families have been uprooted, history has been disrupted, and what little escaped the bulldozers is now threatened by benign neglect.
- In 1962, Congress authorized a dam at Tocks Island, six miles above the Delaware Water Gap.
- The dam was planned upstream of the water gap at Tocks Island, but was never built, although the land for the proposed reservoir had already been purchased.
- Eventually it was discovered that Tocks Island the site of the dam is on a fault line.
- A project to dam the river near Tocks Island was in the works before the 1955 floods.
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