ORGAN PIPE CACTUS NATIONAL MONUMENT – Replanted saguaros stand like sentinels along a wide access road and a towering, 30-foot bollard barrier that’s part of construction ordered by then-President Donald
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Someone new to the area recently asked why the Connecticut River is not more of a focal point in the community. The towering buildings on Main Street look like they’ve
How COVID-19 Is Driving Better Drinking Water Access In The U.S.
More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic and with much of the U.S. opening back up, its residual effects on the country’s systems are becoming clear. And few areas of daily life have been more heavily impacted than drinking water systems.
Handwashing and the use of clean water in the home were identified early on as critical practices for curbing the spread of the novel coronavirus, but as many drinking water managers already knew, access to this vital resource is not equitable across the nation. The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored that fact for much more of the country.
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For Steve Meserve of the Lewis Fishery, the preferred method of setting the seine is by rowing, because he has found that a motor affects the shad hauls.
Steve Meserve wasn’t feeling optimistic. A storm front had moved in overnight and a cold, west-northwest wind was running down the river. The 54-degree water temperature, he said, “makes the shad want to sit down in an eddy somewhere and wait for warmer weather.”
But here in Lambertville, on a wide and deep reach of the Delaware River, this spring’s shad run has been good, even promising. As they have done most every night from late March through May since 1888, fishermen from Lewis Fishery slipped on hip waders and prepared a battered flat-bottom and seine for the evening’s haul.