May 6, 2021

Skinners Falls Bridge Comment Period Extended

From PennDOT (via email), regarding the Skinners Falls Bridge Project: “Please note that due to the significant public response to the public meeting and survey, the survey response deadline has been extended to June 1, 2021.” PennDOT also stated: “We …

April 26, 2021

Skinners Falls Bridge Comments Coming In – Have YOU Made Yours?

As the word gets out about PennDOT’s Skinners Falls Bridge project, people have been getting their comments in to PennDOT. Some sample comments are shown below.

The deadline for making comments is now June 1, 2021.
See PennDOT’s sign at

April 15, 2021

Ed Wesely’s Comment to PennDOT on the Skinners Falls Bridge

Ed Wesely lived in Damascus, PA for 30 years and has a deep reverence for the history and beauty of the Upper Delaware River Valley. You can feel his passion for preserving the Skinners Falls Bridge in the following comment

April 14, 2021

YOU Can Be a Consulting Party for the Skinners Falls Bridge Project

Click the Become Consulting Party button to apply to be a consulting party on the Skinners Falls Bridge project.

If you have any problems with your application email Heather Gerling MA (hgerling@pa.gov), the PennDOT Cultural Resources Professional who is

April 13, 2021

Why DCS is Getting Involved in the Skinners Falls Bridge Issue

Why is DCS is getting involved with the Milanville – Skinners Falls Bridge project?

Your comments by April 30 can help persuade PennDOT to rehabilitate the historic Skinners Falls Bridge.


Let’s go back to why Damascus Citizens for Sustainability was …

April 8, 2021

Hear Ed Wesely Speak About the Skinners Falls Bridge

Originally from Maryland, Ed Wesely lived in Damascus Pennsylvania for 30 years. Many folks in our community know Ed from his involvement with Barbara Yeaman and the Butterfly Barn, which was located on River Road in Milanville, PA. For …

December 6, 2020

Josh Fox Says: Help DCS Fight for You

A Letter From Josh Fox, Director of Gasland

From Josh Fox’s letter:
I dedicated my Academy Award nominated film, GasLand, to DCS because they sounded the alarm about fracking back in 2008. And they were there with invaluable …

February 3, 2020

Interview with Environmentalist Wilma Subra

A pioneer environmental chemist and community advocate continues to dominate at 76
By Rick Mullin, C&EN, January 20, 2020

“I don’t actually live here,” says Wilma Subra, moving through the living room to the kitchen of a small house that …

December 6, 2019

Help DCS Do More in 2020

What future do you want for the Delaware River Basin
(the source of water for 20 million people)?

 

The above or THIS:

DCS is fighting to keep fracking AND frack waste disposal out of the Delaware River Basin and

April 17, 2019

“Amity and Prosperity”, by Eliza Griswold, Wins Pulitzer Prize

A classic American story, grippingly told, of an Appalachian family struggling to retain its middle class status in the shadow of destruction wreaked by corporate fracking

DCS has been publicizing the negative health impacts of fracking for over 10 years,

January 28, 2019

Youth to Elites: Act As If Our House Is on Fire!

Youth Message to Davos Elites: Act As If Our House Is on Fire. Because It Is!
By Frack Check WV, January 26, 2019

“Either we choose to go on as a civilization or we don’t. That is as black or

August 19, 2018

Join Us 8/26 to Demand Fracking Ban in the DRB

Media Advisory

Contacts:
B. Arrindell, Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, 845.252.6677
dcs@DamascusCitizens.org
Tracy Carluccio, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, 215.369.1188×104
tracy@delawareriverkeeper.org
Wes Gillingham, Catskill Mountainkeeper, 845.439.1230
info@catskillmountainkeeper.org

River Demonstrators to Demand Complete Fracking Ban
Residents to unfurl banner over Delaware River against fracking

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