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Delaware River Basin Water Commission Compact (Consolidated Laws of New York: Environmental Conservation Law; Article 21 Pollution Control Compacts; Title 17)

Country/Territory
United States of America
Territorial subdivision
New York
Document type
Legislation
Date
1909 (2019)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Fisheries, Water
Keyword
Inland fisheries Sub-national agreement Freshwater resources management Wetlands River basin institution Water conservation zone Sustainable use Water supply Industrial water use Public health Freshwater pollution Pollution control Water quality standards Navigation Flood Hydropower generation
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

This Title of the Environmental Conservation Law of New York New adopts the Delaware River Basin Water Commission Compact. It provides that there is created hereby a body corporate and politic with perpetual succession, to be known as The Delaware River Basin Water Commission, which shall constitute a public corporate instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and of the States of New Jersey and New York, (and of the State of Delaware if and when Delaware becomes a signatory State), and of each of them, to exercise an essential governmental function of each of the signatory States, for the purposes of developing, utilizing, controlling, and conserving the water resources of the Delaware River Basin in order to assure an adequate water supply: (a) to meet the domestic and industrial requirements of political subdivisions and metropolitan areas within those States; (b) to provide an adequate minimum flow in the Delaware River for the protection of public health, for the benefit of industry and of fisheries, such as oysters, clams, and other shellfish, for animal and aquatic life, for recreation, for general sanitary conditions, for the dilution and abatement of pollution, and for the prevention of undue salinity; and (c) to provide for such other uses of water as navigation, flood control, production of hydro-electric power, and related uses.

Full text
English
Website
public.leginfo.state.ny.us