Maddy Lauria is a freelance writer and photographer based in central Delaware, who covers local and regional topics from environmental justice to climate change to industrial farming and everything in between. See more of her work at MaddyLauria.com. This story was first published in Delaware Currents, a news project dedicated to telling the story of the Delaware River from its headwaters in the Catskill Mountains of New York to the Delaware Bay, where it meets the ocean.