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Show 628 INTERSTATE ADJUDICATIONS "2. $0 M.G.D. After the completion and commencement of opera- tion of the East Branch reservoir, the City may divert the equivalent of 490 m.g.d. until the completion of its proposed dam and reservoir at Cannonsville on the West Branch of the Delaware Eiver, provided, however, that in the event of an abnormal or unforeseeable interrup- tion of its facilities, the City may divert in excess of the equivalent of 490 m.g.d. to meet its emergency requirements, but in no event shall such diversion impair the obligation of the City to make the releases hereinafter specified. "3. 800 M.G.D. After the completion of the Cannonsville reservoir, the City may divert the equivalent of 800 m.g.d. "4. Computation of Diversion. At no time during any twelve-month period, commencing June 1, shall the aggregate total quantity di- verted, divided by the number of days elapsed since the preceding May 31, exceed the applicable permitted rate of diversion. "B. Conditions and Obligations Imposed in Connection with Diver- sions and Releases oy City.-The diversions and releases by the City of New York from the Delaware Eiver shall be made under the super- vision and direction of the Eiver Master, hereinafter appointed, and shall be subject to the following conditions and obligations: "1. Compensating Releases-The Montague Formula. The City shall release water from its reservoirs as follows: "(a) Until the East Branch reservoir is completed and placed in operation, on the day following each day in which the average flow in the Delaware Eiver falls short of 0.50 cubic feet per second per square mile (c.s.m.), either at Montague, New Jersey (below the mouth of the Neversink Eiver), or at Trenton, New Jersey (0.50 c.s.m. being equivalent to a flow of 1,740 cubic feet per second (c.f.s.) at Montague and 3,400 c.f.s. at Trenton), the City shall release water from the Neversink reservoir at an average of 0.6(3 c.s.m. or 61.38 c.f.s. "(b) Upon the completion and placing in operation of the Never- sink and East Branch reservoirs, the City shall release water from one or more of its storage reservoirs in the upper Delaware watershed. Such releases shall be in quantities designed to maintain a minimum basic rate of flow at the gaging station of the United States Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.) at Montague of 1,525 c.f.s. (985.6 m.g.d.) until the Cannonsville project is completed and its reservoir first filled to the extent that 50 billion gallons above the lowest outlet are available for the diversion and release, and of 1,750 c.f.s. (1,131.1 m.g.d.) there- after. Compliance by the City with directions of the Eiver Master with respect to such releases shall be considered full compliance with the requirements of this subsection (b). " (c) At the commencement of the calendar year following the com- pletion and placing in operation of the Neversink and East Branch reservoirs and of each calender year thereafter, the City of New York shall estimate and report to the Eiver Master the anticipated con- sumption of water during such year to be provided for by the City from all its sources of supply. The City shall, as hereinafter pro- vided, release in the aggregate from all its storage reservoirs in the upper Delaware watershed, in addition to the quantity of water re- quired to be released for the purpose of maintaining the then appli- cable minimum basic rate of flow as hereinabove provided, a quantity of water equal to 83 per cent of the amount by which the estimated |
