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Show DELAWARE RIVER BASIN COMPACT 135 which shall be expressed in such authorization, namely: (a) That the authorization shall become null and void unless, within the time specified therein, the holder of such authorization shall secure from the United States such license, permit or authority as may be lawfully required; and (b) that if and to the extent that any of the rights or powers set forth or reserved as rights or powers of the United States in or pursuant to the provisions of such license, permit or authority shall be waived by the United States or be unenforceable by the United States, then and to that extent such rights and powers (includ- ing, if so waived or unenforceable any rights of recapture, extension, or renewal so set forth or reserved), subject to such alterations in plans, specifications, or structures, and such extensions of time for commencing or completing structures, as may have 'been made or granted by the United States, may be exercised and enforced by the signatory st&te which Originally authorized the construction. No proj- ect authorized and constructed under the provisions of this article, shall, at any time, be operated so as to injuriously affect any project for municipal and domestic water supply which has been or may be established under the provisions of this compact. Subject to such con- ditions as the commission may embody in its approval, water for the development of power may be removed from the channel of the Dela- ware river and carried in a canal or in a pipe to any point below a dam constructed under the provisions of this article, but said water shall be returned to the said channel within a distance of twelve miles below the point of removal measured along the center line of the said channel and there shall always be maintained in the said channel immediately below the dam, such regular and uniform flow of water as the commis- sion may determine to be reasonable and proper. "ARTICLE XI "In connection with each and every development made under any provision of this compact, there shall be installed and maintained all equipment and apparatus for measuring quantities and rates of water flow, the determination of which may be necessary for the purpose of showing that the development or construction is being operated in compliance with the provisions of this compact. "article xn "In order to put and maintain the waters in the channel of the Dela- ware river in a condition sanitary and suitable for the uses and pur- poses,set forth by this compact no sewage or industrial waste shall oe discharged or permitted to flow into or be placed in or permitted to fall or move into the channel of the Delaware river or into any of its tributaries otherwise than under the following conditions and restrictions: "1. All sewage discharged or permitted to flow into the channel of the Delaware river above the confluence with the Lehigh river shall, within a time reasonable for the construction of the necessary works, have been so treated as to remove settleable solids, to render the effluent non-putrescible and to effect a reasonable reduction of B. Coli Communis. |