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Show New York Harbor (Tri-State) Interstate Sanitation Compact, 1935 Whereas the tremendous growth of population and the development of the territory surrounding and adjacent to the Harbor of New York has resulted in recent years in an increasingly serious pollution of the harbor, coastal, and tidal waters in such area and the tributary waters therein; and Whereas such pollution constitutes a grave menace to the health, welfare, and recreational facilities of the people living in such area and is occasioning great economic loss; and Whereas the control of future pollution and the abatement of exist- ing pollution in the waters in such area is of prime importance to the people living in such area and can best be accomplished through the cooperation of the States of New Jersey and New York and Connecti- cut by and through a joint or common agency; Now, therefore, The State of New York and the State of New Jersey and the State of Connecticut do agree and are bound as follows: ARTICLE I 1. Each of the signatory States pledges each to the other faithful cooperation in the control of future pollution and agrees to provide for the abatement of existing pollution in the tidal and coastal waters in the adjacent portions of the signatory States denned herein as com- ing within the district, and consistent with such object, to enact ade- quate legislation which will enable each of the signatory States to put and maintain the waters thereof in a satisfactory sanitary condition and particularly to protect public health; to render safe such waters as are now used or may later become available for bathing and recrea- tional purposes; to abate and eliminate such pollution as becomes obnoxious or causes a nuisance; to permit the maintenance of major fish life, shellfish, and marine life in waters now available or that may by practicable means be made available for the development of such fish, shellfish or marine life; to prevent oil, grease, or solids from being carried on the surface of the water; to prevent the formation of sludge deposits along the shores or in the waterways; and with the fulfillment of these objectives to abate and avoid incurring unecessary 1 economic loss by safeguarding the rights of the public in its varied legitimate uses of the waters of the district. ARTICLE II 1. To that end they do agree that there shall be created, and they do hereby create, a district, to be known as the "Interstate Sanitation 1 So in original. 224 |