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  2. Three Mile Island accident - Wikipedia

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    The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor (TMI-2) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station on the Susquehanna River in Londonderry Township, near Harrisburg, the capital city of Pennsylvania, United States. The reactor accident began at 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, and released radioactive ...

  3. Susquehanna River - Wikipedia

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    The Susquehanna River ( / ˌsʌskwəˈhænə / sus-kwə-HAN-ə; Lenape: Siskëwahane [7]) is a major river located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, overlapping between the lower Northeast. At 444 miles (715 km) long, it is the longest river on the East Coast of the United States. [8]

  4. Course of the Willamette River - Wikipedia

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    The Harrisburg gauge measures the flow from an area of about 3,420 square miles (8,900 km 2), about 30 percent of the Willamette watershed. [24] During the 115 years of 1894 plus 1896–2009, the average discharge recorded by a gauge at the Ellsworth Street Bridge in Albany, Oregon, at RM 119.31 (RK 192.01), was 14,210 cubic feet per second ...

  5. Ohio River flood of 1937 - Wikipedia

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    Downtown Huntington, West Virginia, during the Great Flood of 1937. The Ohio River flood of 1937 took place in late January and February 1937. With damage stretching from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, 385 people died, one million people were left homeless and property losses reached $500 million ($10.2 billion when adjusted for inflation as of September 2022).

  6. Delaware River - Wikipedia

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    The Delaware River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and is the longest free-flowing (undammed) river in the Eastern United States. From the meeting of its branches in Hancock, New York, the river flows for 282 miles (454 km) [1] along the borders of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, before ...

  7. Willamette River - Wikipedia

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    Middle Fork Willamette River, McKenzie River, Calapooia River, Santiam River, Molalla River, Clackamas River. The Willamette River ( / wɪˈlæmɪt / ⓘ wil-AM-it) is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting for 12 to 15 percent of the Columbia's flow. The Willamette's main stem is 187 miles (301 km) long, lying entirely in ...

  8. Capital Region Water - Wikipedia

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    Headquarters. 212 Locust Street, Suite 500. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Employees. 115. Website. www.capitalregionwater.com. Capital Region Water (formerly known as Harrisburg Authority) is a municipal authority providing drinking water, wastewater and stormwater services in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. [1]

  9. Dock Street Dam - Wikipedia

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    6 feet. Length. 3,460 feet (1,050 m) Reservoir. Creates. Susquehanna River. The Dock Street Dam is a low-head dam that crosses the Susquehanna River between the Shipoke neighborhood of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on the east shore and Lemoyne on the west shore. It is constructed of hollow, reinforced concrete buttress dam and was built to create ...