Dr. Allen was referring to an earlier plan to dam the Delaware at Tocks Island, flooding 12,000 acres of the recreation area.

Plans by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1990's to dam the Delaware near Tocks Island would have flooded the plain, swallowing it forever.

A 1950s proposal to construct a dam near Tocks Island across the Delaware River was met with considerable controversy and protest.

Tocks Island is located in the Delaware River a short distance north from the Delaware Water Gap.

The federal government restored plans from the 1930s to build dams along the Delaware River, one of which along Tocks Island.

But it also symbolizes the legacy of Tocks Island: families have been uprooted, history has been disrupted, and what little escaped the bulldozers is now threatened by benign neglect.

In 1962, Congress authorized a dam at Tocks Island, six miles above the Delaware Water Gap.

The dam was planned upstream of the water gap at Tocks Island, but was never built, although the land for the proposed reservoir had already been purchased.

Eventually it was discovered that Tocks Island the site of the dam is on a fault line.

A project to dam the river near Tocks Island was in the works before the 1955 floods.