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Show 660 INTERSTATE ADJUDICATIONS During this proceeding, a suggestion was made that the parties agree to a 10-day increase in diversions from 1,500 c.f.s. to 10,000 c.f.s. to scour an accumulation of sludge near Joliet. A stipulation was en- tered into permitting this to be done and an order temporarily modi- fying the 1980 decree accordingly was entered by the Court. (311 U.S. 107(1940)). (C) Wisconsin v. Illinois, 352 U.S. 945 (1956), 352 U.S. 983 (1957) - A temporary increase in diversions from the Great Lakes-St. Law- rence system to the Illinois Waterway and the Mississippi River was allowed "in view of the emergency in navigation caused by low water in the Mississippi." The increase was limited to an average of 8,500 second-feet or so much thereof as the Corps of Engineers "shall deter- mine will be useful in alleviating the emergency with respect to naviga- tion currently existing without seriously interfering with navigation on the Illinois Waterway * * *." This permission to increase diver- sion expired February 28,1957. (D) An application to reopen and to amend or modify the decree of April 21,1930, as enlarged, was granted June 29, 1959 (360 U.S. 712). Hearings were held by a special master and on the basis of his report, the Court entered the following decree on June 12,1967 (388 U.S. 426) : "This Court having reopened Original cases Nos. 1, 2, and 3, and having granted leave to file Original case No. 11, and having referred all such cases to a Special Master who has filed his Report, and the parties having agreed to the form of the decree, the Findings of Fact in the Report are hereby adopted, and it being unnecessary at this time to consider the Special Master's legal conclusions, "It is ordered, adjudged, and decreed that: "1. The State of Illinois and its municipalities, political subdivi- sions, agencies, and instrumentalities, including, among others, the cities of Chicago, Evanston, Highland Park, Highwood and Lake Forest, the villages of Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, and Glencoe, the Elmhurst-Villa Park-Lombard Water Commission, the Chicago Park District and the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chi- cago, their employees and agents and all persons assuming to act under their authority, are hereby enjoined from divert- ing any of the waters of Lake Michigan or its watershed into the Illinois waterway, whether by way of domestic pumpage from the lake the sewage effluent derived from which reaches the Illinois water- way, or by way of storm runoff from the Lake Michigan watershed which is diverted into the Sanitary and Ship Canal, or by way of direct diversion from the lake into the canal, in excess of an average for all of them combined of 3,200 cubic feet per second. 'Domestic pumpage,' as used in this decree, includes water supplied to com- mercial and industrial establishments and 'domestic use' includes use by such establishments. The water permitted by this decree to be diverted from Lake Michigan and its watershed may be appor- tioned by the State of Illinois among its municipalities, political sub- divisions, agencies, and instrumentalities for domestic use or for direct diversion into the Sanitary and Ship Canal to maintain it in a reason- ably satisfactory sanitary condition, in such manner and amounts and by and through such instrumentalities as the State may deem proper, |