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Show DELAWARE RIVER BASIN COMPACT 161 commissioners, or any other board, commission, or public authority having jurisdiction or control over all or any part of a water supply or distribution system, may enter into contracts for the supplying of water by the Commission and the payment of any fees or other charges to the Commission. The contracts may be made for a specified or an unlimited time notwithstanding any other provision of law, general or special, on any terms and conditions which may be approved by the political subdivision and which mav be agreed to by the Com- mission, and such contracts shall be valid and binding upon the political subdivision, notwithstanding that no appropriation has been made or provided to cover the cost or estimated cost of the contract. "3. Such political subdivision is hereby authorized and directed to do and perform any and all acts or things necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out and perform every such contract and to provide for the payment of any obligations thereunder in the same manner as other obligations of such political subdivision. Each political sub- division shall pay promptly to the Commission all fees and other charges due the Commission. "ARTICLE IX-RELEASE OF STORED WATERS "1. No signatory State shall permit the flow in the Delaware River to be diminished by the diversion of any water from the main channel of the Delaware River during any period in which waters are being released from storage reservoirs constructed under the provisions of this compact for the purpose of maintaining an adequate minimum flow in the Delaware River during the periods of low flow therein, except in cases where such diversion shall have been duly authorized under the provisions of this compact. "2. The Commission shall release water from storage for the pur- poses of maintaining an adequate minimum flow in the Delaware River during periods of low flow therein in accordance with the fol- lowing provisions: "(a) Upon and after completion of a storage reservoir on the West Branch of the Delaware River near Cannonsville, New York, sufficient water shall be released from the aforesaid reservoir to maintain a minimum flow in the Delaware River, as measured at the stream gaging station at Port Jervis, New York, of at least 1,800 cubic feet per second. "(b) Upon and after completion of storage reservoirs on the West Branch of the Delaware River near Cannonsville, New York, on the main channel of the Delaware River near Barryville, New York, and on the Neversink River near Godeffroy, New York, sufficient water shall be released from the system consisting of the three aforesaid reservoirs to maintain a minimum flow in the Delaware River, as measured at the stream gaging station at Trenton, New Jersey, of at least 4,000 cubic feet per second. "(c) Upon and after completion of storage reservoirs on the West Branch of the Delaware River near Cannonsville, New York, on the main channel of the Delaware River near Barryville, New York, on the Neversink River near Godeffroy, New York, and on the main channel of the Delaware River near Wallpack Bend, sufficient water shall be released from the system consisting of the four aforesaid |
