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Protecting Our Waters: The Impact of Marcellus Shale Drilling in the Delaware River Basin

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The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Damascus Citizens for Sustainability present “Protecting Our Waters: The Impact of Marcellus Shale Drilling in the Delaware River Basin”. This public forum, to be held Thursday December 10 at 7PM at Temple in Room 021 of Gladfelter Hall will feature activists, lawyers and engineers discussing the potential environmental, legal and social impacts of drilling for natural gas within the Delaware River Basin area of the Marcellus Shale.

The Delaware River, the longest undammed river east of the Mississippi, provides drinking water for 15 million people, including the City of Philadelphia and New York City. The basin is home to nationally designated wild and scenic rivers, endangered species, and a thriving population of American Bald Eagles. The Delaware River basin is also underlain by the Marcellus Shale formation which is the largest known shale deposit in the world with an estimated 488 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.

Can this natural gas be recovered without destroying the Delaware River’s ecosystems and recreational areas and without endangering the water supply and quality of life for millions of Americans?

For more information, contact Dr. Robert Ryan, 215-204-3054, rjryan@temple.edu or go to http://www.damascuscitizens.org/pow.html

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