Daily News | Lehigh River listed as one of ‘most endangered’ rivers in U.S. due to rampant warehouse developments
American Rivers, a national nonprofit aimed at protecting waterways, has named the Lehigh as one of its top 10 most endangered rivers in 2023 because of the explosive growth in the past few years of warehouses that rim the watershed.
But it also has an industrial past and travels through densely populated areas including Allentown and Bethlehem, both also on the banks of the Lehigh. Although its water quality is better than it was during the industrial heyday, it is still threatened by rampant development., a crowd from Allen Township, Northampton County, showed up at a planning commission meeting. One person told the commission simply: “We don’t want any more warehouses.”
“We started seeing distribution center build expanding northward,” she said. “The communities saw what was happening in the Lehigh Valley. They got concerned they started watching it happen to them.”
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