| Charles Stewart Richey | | | | This stretch of the river is the principle breeding |
| Energy Project Endangers National Bird | | | | ground of the American Bald Eagle. |
| New York Regional Interconnect, Inc. (NYRI) plans | | | | It is recognized that this river route is the |
| to install 200 miles of 400-kilovolt 1200 megawatt | | | | cheapest way to build the proposed power line, |
| DC power-transmission lines from the town of | | | | but certainly isn't the only way. NYRI has explored |
| Marcy, NY near Utica, to the town of New | | | | other options, including placing the power lines |
| Windsor in Orange County to supply power to | | | | along existing highway rights-of-way. This would |
| New York City and Long Island. | | | | be, of course, a more appropriate alternative. It |
| 73 miles of this line would be constructed along | | | | would not disrupt the natural habitat of the Bald |
| the railroad tracks on the Pennsylvania side of the | | | | Eagle, nor mar the beauty of the Upper Delaware |
| Delaware River from Hancock, to Port Jervis, NY. | | | | Scenic and Recreational River corridor. |