The Friends are excited to be a part of Easton Heritage Day. This free, full-day family festival showcases local history and the heritage of many groups with reenactment events, activities for kids, history tours, and musical performances.
On Friday, July 24, following the installation of the new drop gate at Groundhog Lock (Locks 22-23) in Raubsville, the Delaware Canal State Park staff opened the bypass gate in Easton allowing Lehigh River water to enter the Canal. On Saturday, the water had flowed to and past Groundhog Lock to the waste gate at Mueller’s Store. There the water was released to control the new inflow. Today, the waste gate at Mueller’s was closed, and the water has reached Riegelsville and beyond. At Durham, it will be released into the Delaware River until the completion of the Tinicum Aqueduct project.
The parking lot at the Forks of the Delaware in Easton – a trail head for both the Delaware Canal and the D&L Trail – will be closed Monday, June 29 through Friday, July 3 and then Monday, July 6 through Friday, July 10.
Wy-Hit-Tuk Park, located south of Easton, has closed as are all other Northampton County Parks. The Canal towpath cannot be accessed from this site.
Both DCNR and PennDOT have completed the necessary culvert pipe and sinkhole repairs located in the Canal and on Route 611 near Canal Cup. The gate in Easton that allows water to flow into the Canal has been reopened, and the process of rewatering the Canal from Easton to Erwinna has begun.
The masonry work on the berm bank stone wall at Lehnenberg Road and the restoration of Woody’s Camelback Bridge are progressing well. Winter isn’t holding the contractors back!
Repairs of what we hope are the last of the northern sinkholes are underway.
Friends of the Delaware Canal
145 South Main Street
New Hope, PA 18938
Phone: 215.862.2021
Michael Ginder, Executive Director
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