Controversy on the Delaware
A Look Upstream at the Tocks Island Dam Project
A video documentary by Ryan Balton, Brett Fuchs, and Nick Troiano

Come see Controversy on the Delaware at the Black Bear Film Festival's "Envirofest"
on Sunday, October 15, 2006 at 12 noon


From left: Ryan Balton, Nick Troiano, Brett Fuchs.
Three students of Delaware Valley High School, seniors Ryan Balton and Nick Troiano and graduate of the class of 2006 Brett Fuchs, will present a documentary titled Controversy on the Delaware: A Look Upstream at the Tocks Island Dam Project at the Black Bear Film Festival in Milford, PA. The film will be shown on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 12:00 p.m. as part of the festival's Envirofest.The Envirofest is open to the public for free and will be held down the street from the Milford Theater.

In the aftermath of the ravaging 1955 flood, the Army Corps of Engineers set out to construct a dam across the Delaware River. The Tocks Island Dam would create a lake and recreational area consuming 70,000 acres of farmland and residential property. The video documentary exposes the grassroots environmental movement by local residents and the stand they took against the project. The land is now the National Park Service's Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

The Balton, Fuchs, Troiano triumvirate originally produced the video for the National History Day competition. At the regional competition in March 2006 at Penn State Wilkes-Barre, their senior group documentary entry received first place and a near perfect score. After participating at the state competition and showing the video at the Columns Museum, they realized the importance of sharing the fascinating but obscure history of the Tocks Island Dam Project. The three are distinguished members of the community known for their leadership and participation in DV's video news program Broadcast Del Val, the school newspaper The Del.Aware , website DV World, Model United Nations, Odyssey of the Mind, Relay for Life, and other activities.

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