Editing Sunbury, Pennsylvania (section)

==Parks and recreation==
The extensive Sunbury Riverfront Park Project is in the planning and implementation stages in Sunbury. An extensive floodwall protection system was designed and built by the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1951. Additional height was added to the wall in 2003. The system has provided protection from 15 major flood events over the past 50 years.<ref>Background Information and Data, Sunbury Riverfront Park Project {{cite web |last=Jaffe Collins |first=Simone |title=Sunbury Riverfront Master Site Plan - Background Information and Data |url=http://www.seda-cog.org/nor-sunbury/lib/nor-sunbury/riverfrontproject/finalmsp/01_background.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070710211112/http://www.seda-cog.org/nor-sunbury/lib/nor-sunbury/riverfrontproject/finalmsp/01_background.pdf |archive-date=2007-07-10 |access-date=2007-06-26}}</ref> In 1972, flood waters from [[Hurricane Agnes]] crested at {{convert|35.8|ft|m|1}} at Sunbury, two feet higher than the crest in 1936. The wall held back the water and residents showed their gratitude in messages they wrote on the wall.<ref>[http://www.seda-cog.org/nor-sunbury/cwp/view.asp?A=862&Q=428382&tx=1 History of Sunbury The flood wall] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928151509/http://www.seda-cog.org/nor-sunbury/cwp/view.asp?A=862&Q=428382&tx=1 |date=2007-09-28 }} SEDA-COG, Oct. 12, 2005.</ref>

[[File:Floodwall in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.JPG|thumb|right|[[Floodwall]] in Sunbury]] Hurricane Agnes in late June 1972 was blamed for 10 deaths in Lancaster County, eight in Dauphin County, five in York County and four in both Northumberland and Luzerne counties, according to the [[Susquehanna River Basin Commission]].<ref>Tropical Storm Agnes in the Susquehanna River Basin June 21–24, 1972, Susquehanna River Basin Commission, Information Sheet</ref>

Additionally, a multimillion-dollar fish ladder is being built across the river in Shamokin Dam to mitigate the impediment of the shad migration up the Susquehanna River caused by the annual inflation of the Adam T. Bower Fabri Dam.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dep.state.pa.us/newsletter/default.asp?NewsletterArticleID=3840&SubjectID=|title=DCNR to Remove Last Impediment to Shad on Susquehanna}}</ref>

The [[Adam T. Bower Memorial Dam]], an inflatable fabric-tube dam barrage impounding the [[Susquehanna River]], creates the {{convert|3,000|acre|km2}} Augusta Lake for recreation. It is inflated in May and deflated in the fall. The new waterfront development in Sunbury will provide a marina with transient boat docks, walking trails, gardens, an amphitheater and a new accessible fishing pier. Three acres of land will be added to the river side of the flood wall.

The city offers baseball fields, a skating park, tennis courts, playgrounds, a community pool and a small park that is next to the county courthouse, in the downtown area.<ref>Public parks of Sunbury {{cite web |url=http://www.seda-cog.org/nor-sunbury/cwp/view.asp?a=853&q=428179 |title=City of Sunbury: Merle Phillips Park |access-date=2007-06-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825182854/http://www.seda-cog.org/nor-sunbury/cwp/view.asp?a=853&q=428179 |archive-date=2007-08-25 }}</ref>

A vacant building in the Shikellamy State Park along the river is under consideration for redevelopment as an environmental research and education center. Designed in the 1960s, the facility was originally the Basse Beck Environmental Center. It has been empty for several years.