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Show DELAWARE RIVER BASIN COMPACT 131 line. The allotments of the respective States shall be computed from time to time as follows: "In case no tributary within the drainage area above the New York-New Jersey state line shall have been developed for diversion, then the allotment of each state, at any point in the channel of the Delaware river above the said state line, hereinafter called the normal allotment, shall be one-third of the total water which may, at any time, be flowing in said channel at that point. In case one or more tributaries within said drainage area shall have been developed for diversion by only one of the signatory states, then the respective allotments of the signatory states shall be determined by the follow- ing rule: The allotment of said diverting state shall be determined by subtracting from its normal allotment an amount to be computed by multiplying said normal allotment by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the total drainage area developed for diversion on said tributaries within that state above the New York-New Jersey state line and the denominator of said fraction shall be the total drainage area above the said state line; and the allotment of each one of the other two states shall be determined by adding to its normal allotment one-half of the amount subtracted from the allotment of the diverting state. In case tributaries within the drainage area above the New York-New Jersey state line shall have been developed for diversion by two or more states the rule herein above stated shall be applied separately and in turn as to each diverting state, and the subtractions from and additions to the normal allotments of the states, thus deter- mined, shall fix the allotments of the states as of that time. "All water which originates within the drainage area below the New York-New Jersey state line and enters the channel of the Dela- ware river below that line and which is in excess of all water in transit in said channel is hereby allotted to the states of New Jersey and Penn- sylvania and with the approval of the commission as provided in article eight hereof, each of said states may divert from said channel at any point below the said state line that portion of its allotment which is in excess of a reserve flow of eighteen hundredths of a cubic foot per second for each square mile of drainage area lying above the point of diversion and below the New York-New Jersey state line. The allotments of the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the waters which originate within the drainage area below the New York- New Jersey state line shall be computed from time to time as follows: "In case no tributary within the drainage area below the New York- New Jersey state line shall have been developed for diversion, then the allotment of the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania at any point in the channel of the Delaware river below said state line, here- inafter called the normal allotment, shall be one-half of the water which has originated within the said drainage area and which, at any time, is flowing in the said channel at such point below siaid state line; in case New Jersey or Pennsylvania shall have developed for diversion one or more tributaries within said drainage area, then the allotment of the diverting state shall be determined by subtracting from its normal allotment an amount to be computed by multiplying said normal allotment by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the total drainage area developed for diversion on said tributaries within that state below the New York-New Jersey state line and the |