There are substantial sections of the river that are frozen solid. Aerial photos of the river in the area of the park show immense stretches covered in ice.
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The winter of 1917-1918 was one of the worst on record when the Ohio River froze along its entire length. The ice gorge crushed and sank the Princess, one of the passenger steamboats to Coney Island. Folks have fresher memories of when the Ohio River froze during the 1976-1977 and 1977-1978 winters.
On March 24, 2023, the Trinseo Altuglas chemical plant in Bristol, Pennsylvania in the United States had an equipment failure that resulted in a leak of between 8,100 and 12,000 gallons of butyl acetate, ethyl acetate, and methyl methacrylate into Otter Creek, a tributary of the Delaware River.
Clearwater River freezes in a unique wayAlaskan rivers also have the phenomenon, but for a different reason. Alaskan rivers freeze from the bottom up due to the permafrost. The Clearwater freezes from the bottom up in places where basalt is exposed.