Conservation" Commission 27 



Union Water District Projects 

 Acting under the provisions of chapter 233 of the Conservation 

 Law, the cities of Cohoes and Watervliet, together with the vil- 

 lage of Green Island and the town of Waterford, on June 23, 

 1913, organized the Charlton Union Water District. Thereupon 

 the Commission through its chief engineer caused careful ex- 

 aminations and surveys to be made, and designed a gravity water 

 supply system with filtration, together with maps, plans and esti- 

 mates for a complete water supply, and on June 15, 1914, made 

 its report to the Charlton Union Water District. The Commis- 

 sion is convinced that the best interests of the municipalities in- 

 corporated in the Charlton Union Water District would be sub- 

 served, as to their public water supply, by the carrying out of the 

 Charlton Union Water District project. We believe that the pro- 

 visions of the Conservation Law for Union Water Districts will 

 be of very great value when its features are more generally under- 

 stood. 



Stream Surveys 

 Power surveys have been made on the Saranac river, the 

 Paquette river and the Schoharie creek, and partly as to the 

 St. Regis river. It is intended to make a separate pamphlet re- 

 port, on the lines of the Oswegatchie report published last year, 

 as to each of these important streams, and also to include the same 

 information in the bound annual reports of the Commission. 



Supervision Over Docks and Dams 

 By an amendment to section 22 of the Conservation Law 

 enacted in 1914, all the docks of the State, excepting those form- 

 ing a part of the canal system and those under the jurisdiction of 

 a dock department in cities of the first class, have been placed 

 under the jurisdiction of the Commission. The necessity for this 

 law became apparent when a dock at Eagle Park on Grand Island 

 in the Niagara river failed, resulting in the drowning of a large 

 number of persons. As the Legislature neglected to make appro- 

 priation for carrying out the provisions of the amended law as to 

 docks, the Commission has been able to do but little in this direc- 

 tion. 



