Lake Michigan Water Diversion: Hearings Before the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives, Eighty-third Congress, First Session, on H.R. 3192 (and Others) to Authorize the State of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago, Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Army, to Help Control the Lake Level of Lake Michigan by Diverting Water from Lake Michigan Into the Illinois Waterway. July 15 and 16, 1953U.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - 155 páginas Committee Serial No. 83-7. Considers legislation to authorize increased diversion of water from Lake Michigan for the Illinois Waterway. |
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additional diversion annual average Army engineers authorized Beardstown bills Canada Canadian Chairman channel Chicago drainage canal Chicago River Chicago Sanitary District city of Chicago commerce committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressman construction cubic feet damage decree discharge District of Chicago diversion at Chicago diversion from Lake diversion of water domestic pumpage DONDERO downstate effect effluent Federal feet per second flood flow foot Government hearings Illinois River Illinois Waterway inches increase in diversion increased diversion interests International Joint Commission jurisdiction lake diversion Lake Erie Lake Huron lake levels Lake Michigan Lake Ontario Lake Superior Lakes Michigan-Huron Lawrence legislation level of Lake Lockport MACHROWICZ MASON Mayor TILLITT MESEROW miles million Niagara Falls Niagara River Ohio OLIS outlet oxygen percent plants ports present problem question Ramey recommended regulation riparian sanitary district Secretary sewage-treatment Special Master statement stream Supreme Court United States Supreme water from Lake water levels watershed Wisconsin
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Página 83 - It is agreed that, in addition to the uses, obstructions, and diversions heretofore permitted or hereafter provided for by special agreement between the Parties hereto, no further or other uses or obstructions or diversions, whether temporary or permanent, of boundary waters on either side of the line...
Página 1 - Be it enacted by the Senate and Bouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Housing Amendments of 1957".
Página 10 - The present treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by His Britannic Majesty. The ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible and the treaty shall take effect on the date of the exchange of its ratifications. It shall thereafter remain in force continuously unless and until terminated by twenty-four months' written notice given by either high contracting party to the other.
Página 10 - America, have caused the said treaty and the said understanding, as forming a part thereof, to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this...
Página 8 - ... 1. Uses for domestic and sanitary purposes; 2. Uses for navigation, including the service of canals for the purposes of navigation ; 3. Uses for power and for irrigation purposes. The foregoing provisions shall not apply to or disturb any existing uses of boundary waters on either side of the boundary.
Página 9 - In all cases where special agreements between the High Contracting Parties hereto are referred to in the foregoing articles, such agreements are understood and intended to include not only direct agreements between the High Contracting Parties, but also any mutual arrangement between the United States and the Dominion of Canada expressed by concurrent or reciprocal legislation on the part of Congress and the Parliament of the Dominion.
Página 9 - ... matters shall thereupon be referred for decision by the High Contracting Parties to an umpire chosen in accordance with the procedure prescribed in the fourth, fifth, and sixth paragraphs of Article XLV of The Hague Convention for the pacific settlement of international disputes, dated October 18, 1907. Such umpire shall have power to render a final decision with respect to those matters and questions so referred on which the Commission failed to agree.
Página 84 - ... affecting the natural level or flow of boundary waters on the other side of the line, shall be made except by authority of the United States or the Dominion of Canada within their respective jurisdictions and with the approval, as hereinafter provided, of a joint commission, to be known as the International Joint Commission.
Página 64 - Incidentally, it will provide for the largest navigable waterway from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River which has been considered by Congress. "We therefore recommend that the Government of the United States prohibit the diversion of more than 10,000 cubic feet per second for the Chicago drainage canal.
Página 5 - Majesty and to the citizens of the United States, subject to any laws and regulations of either country within its own territory, not inconsistent with such privilege of free navigation.