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Show 130 INTERSTATE COMPACTS (A) domestic and municipal, (B) sanitation, (C) industry and power, and (D) navigation. "article iv "Any administrative department, political subdivision, corpora- tion, partnership, association or person authorized in that behalf by or under the laws of any signatory state may exercise the rights and privileges herein conferred on such state, subject to the duties and obligations herein imposed on such state. "article v "Any tributary or any part of any tributary of the Delaware river may be developed for any purpose by or under the authority of the signatory state in which it is located, and water so developed may be diverted for use at any point either within or without the drainage area of the Delaware river. In case water so developed is diverted, then the following restrictions and limitations shall apply: "1. Every such development shall be carried out in compliance with the legislative provisions governing such matters in the state in which it is located. "2. Every such development shall be so planned and the works shall be so constructed as to bring about the greatest practicable conserva- tion and use of the waters of the tributary on which it is located. "3. In the case of every such development located above the New York-New Jersey state line there shall be maintained below the point of development during the months of July, August, September and October a reserve flow equal to the ordinary flow at that point, and also if at any other time during the year the flow in the tributary at the point of development is less than the ordinary flow at that point, then a reserve flow equal to the ordinary flow shall be maintained below the point of development. In the case df every such develop- ment located below the New York-New Jersey state line there shall, at all times, be maintained below the point of development a reserve flow equal to the ordinary low flow at that point. "4. The total drainage area in any state which may be developed for diversion under the provisions of this article shall not exceed three-fifths of the drainange area of the Delaware river which lies within that state. "article vi "All water which, at any time, is flowing in the channel of the Delaware river above the New York-New Jersey state line and which is in excess of all water in transit in said channel is allotted to the states of New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, and with the approval of the commission, as provided in article eight hereof, each of these states may divert from the said channel at any point, above the said state line, that portion of its allotment which is in excess of a reserve flow of fifteen hundredths of a cubic foot per second for each square mile of drainage area above the point of diversion and at any point below the New York-New Jersey state line each of the said states may divert that portion of its allotment which is in excess of a reserve flow of twelve hundredths of a cubic foot per second for each square mile of drainage area above the New York-New Jersey state |
